Islamabad: Pro and anti-Musharraf political parties have failed in their efforts to reach a consensus on government formation in Pakistan, but asked the military regime to announce schedule for transfer of power to elected representatives and convene National and Provincial Assemblies.

Leaders of government-backed Pakistan Muslim League-Qaide Azam (PML-Q), former Premier Benazir Bhutto's Pakistan Peoples Party Parliamentarians (PPPP), Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA), an alliance of six hardline religious parties, and pro- Musharraf National Alliance met in Islamabad on October 29 night to thrash out their differences over President Pervez Musharraf's Constitutional amendments which became a thorny issue in the way of government formation.

PPPP and MMA are sticking to their reservations in accepting Musharraf's Legal framework Order (LFO), which incorporated the amendments. PML-Q, PPPP and MMA have emerged as top three parties in October 10 polls, but none of the three could secure majority to form a government.

While failing to agree on government formation, the parties, however, vowed not to create any deadlock in the way of transferring of power by military government to elected representatives and adopted a four-point declaration, calling on Musharraf government to immediately convene sessions of the National and Provincial Assemblies and issue a schedule to transfer of power to elected administration.

"The sessions of the National Assembly and provincial Assemblies should be convened immediately and the government should issue the schedule for transfer of power to the elected representatives," the resolution said.

PTI