Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani [ Images ] on Friday said the resignations of ministers of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, who had quit his cabinet, would be accepted soon. He ruled out setting a deadline for restoring judges dismissed during last year's emergency rule.

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Gilani said senior PML-N leader Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan had recently met him and asked him to accept the resignations of his party ministers.

"I'll soon accept the resignations," he told reporters.

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Former premier Nawaz Sharif's [ Images ] PML-N pulled out of the ruling coalition on Monday, accusing Pakistan People's Party chief Asif Ali Zardari [ Images ] of reneging on agreements to reinstate the judges who were sacked by former President Pervez Musharraf [ Images ].

On his government's stand on reinstating the judges, Gilani said it is committed to restoring them to their former positions, but refused to set a deadline for the same.

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"Even before taking oath, I released all the judges (from house arrest)... Now we are committed to restoring the judges. I have not given any deadline and I think it is not appropriate to give deadlines because it is up to the parliament to take a decision," he said.

The Prime Minister also said he was not privy to the discussions held between the Pakistan People's Party and the PML-N over the past few months on the issue of reinstating the judges.

"Politicians have been discussing this issue for four months, but I did not participate for even a single day," he said.