Nawaz Sharif, chief of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) announced Monday that the PML-N ministers would resign Tuesday.
Sharif made the remarks while addressing a news conference at the Punjab House in Islamabad.
Sharif said the PML-N ministers would tender their resignations to Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani on Tuesday because Pakistan People's Party (PPP) could not keep its promise to restore the deposed judges.
He further said the PML-N would withdraw from the government instead of the ruling coalition.
Following the failure of talks with PPP in London on the issue of deposed judges, the PML-N Monday held a central working committee meeting and finally decided to pull its ministers out of the cabinet.
No breakthrough could be achieved on the issue of restoration of deposed judges after holding marathon negotiations with the PPP, Sharif said.
Sharif said that the steps taken on Nov. 3 were unconstitutional and illegal. He said that General Pervez Musharraf sacked some 60 judges in a single move, replacing them with his own under Provisional Constitutional Order (PCO). We don' t accept these PCO judges, Sharif added.
Local TV channel DAWN NEWS quoted sources privy to the talks between the two parties as saying that the PPP intended to retain the PCO judges who took oath of office after President Pervez Musharraf declared a state of emergency and promulgated the PCO on Nov. 3 in 2007.
