Islamabad: Having emerged as the single largest party in the Parliamentary polls, the Pakistan People's Party(PPP) today said it will try to form a coalition government at the Centre and all four provinces with allies and opposition groups.

"We intend to make government in all four provinces and the centre, so we will act as the government-in-waiting with our allies," PPP co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari told a news conference after a marathon meeting with the party s top leadership.

"Our endeavour and our policy is to form a national consensus government that will take along all political forces," said Zardari, who was appointed co-chairman of the party after his wife and former premier Benazir Bhutto was assassinated in December.

He said all parties that joined a government led by the PPP would have to back its demand for a UN-led inquiry into her killing.

"We have decided that our first and most important condition for those friends who will form the government with us is that they must support us in approaching the UN (for a probe into Bhutto s assassination). We will get a resolution passed and this will be the first action of the government," he said.

Asked if he would include members of the defeated PML-Q, which backs President Pervez Musharraf, Zardari said " we are not interested in any of these people who are part and parcel of the previous government."

Zardari, however, avoided giving direct replies to questions on PML-N chief and former premier Nawaz Sharif s demand for the reinstatement of judges who were deposed during last year s emergency and a call for Musharraf to step down after PML-Q s defeat.

Source : PTI