ISLAMABAD: With only a couple of days remaining for the selection of a caretaker prime minister before the matter goes to an eight-member bipartisan parliamentary committee, backchannel talks between the PPP and PML-N remained bogged down till Sunday night.
As stalemate continues, more names are being suggested for the post, strengthening a perception that eventually a dark horse might emerge as the winner, according to sources close to the leaders of both sides.
“More names may be considered for the post of caretaker prime minister because both sides have agreed to discuss new names,” PPP leader Qamar Zaman Kaira told Dawn on Sunday. “Both PPP and PML-N have options to propose any name for the post till the matter is sent to the parliamentary committee,” he said.
At the moment, Mr Kaira said, there was a deadlock and efforts were being made to reach an accord.
“The government has some reservations over the names proposed by the leader of the opposition but we are still ready to listen to the opposition,” Mr Kaira said.
However, he said, although the option of more names was open, the PPP was trying to persuade the opposition to accept the name of Dr Ishrat Husain, a former governor of the State Bank of Pakistan.
He said the PPP disagreed with the names proposed by the PML-N because of logical reasons. “We rejected the name of Justice (retd) Nasir Aslam Zahid because he made a false case against President Asif Ali Zardari for the murder of his brother-in-law and Rasul Bakhsh Palijo’s name was not acceptable because his son has made an alliance against the PPP in Sindh and he was contesting polls against us,” the former information minister said.
But the sources from both sides believe that a breakthrough will be made in a couple of days, till March 19, the deadline for consultation between the prime minister and the leader of the opposition.
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