ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League- Nawaz (PML-N) leader Raja Zafarul Haq on Tuesday said that his party and Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) had not yet made any breakthrough to form a coalition government at the centre.

The PML-N leader told APP that the two parties had constituted committees to continue talks on the matter.

Regarding JUI-F’s demands of two federal ministries and chairmanship of the National Assembly’s Committee on Kashmir Affairs, Haq said the JUI-F had already contradicted the news item in that regard.

He said that he had extended a formal invitation to JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman for joining the government and his demands had been conveyed to the party’s high ups.

On Monday, JUI-F spokesman Jan Achakzai had categorically denied that the party had demanded any ministry in its talks with the PML-N and said all such reports were baseless and speculative. He, however, said the party would definitely ask for some offices when it would finally decide to join the government.

Sources in the PML-N claimed that though the JUI-F had not formally presented its demands, the party seemed to be interested in getting the office of the governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the office of the speaker or deputy speaker in Balochistan Assembly, at least two to three ministries in the federal cabinet and the chairmanship of the parliamentary committee on Kashmir.

Achakzai further said the JUI-F had so far not expressed its desire to join the government and would make a final decision in the light of the report of a four-member committee which had been constituted on Sunday to hold further talks with the second tier of the PML-N leadership.

The committee members are Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Haideri, Maulana Gul Naseeb Khan, Akram Khan Durrani and Malik Sikandar Khan.– APP/Dawn.com