The ministers from the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) will submit their resignations to Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Tuesday afternoon, marking the end of the six-week-old coalition government.
The ministers will submit the resignations at 1 p.m. on Tuesday after they hold a brief meeting with the prime minister, PML-N spokesman Sidiqul Farooq told reporters.
PML-N leader Nawaz Sharif announced Monday that the PML-N ministers would resign following the failure of talks with the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) on the issue of deposed judges.
The PPP and PML-N emerged as the two largest parties in National Assembly, lower house of the parliament, in the general elections held on Feb. 18.
The two parties agreed to form a coalition government and also pledged to restore the deposed judges within 30 days from the day when the government was formed.
However, the PML-N set May 12 as the second deadline for reinstating the judges after the two failed to meet the first deadline set on April 30.
The three-day London talks between the two parties ended in deadlock on Sunday because they failed to bridge differences over the judges' issue.
The PML-N insisted that the sacked judges should be reinstated unconditionally before April 30 as per the agreement reached in Murree.
But the PPP said that the independence of judiciary was more important than the simple restoration of judges and preferred to bring about a constitutional package to resolve the issue.
Source:Xinhua
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