( dpa )- Pakistan's election-winning opposition parties ironed out their differences Sunday and will reinstate deposed judges 30 days after parliament has convened, according to joint news conference.
The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) of assassinated former premier Benazir Bhutto and the Pakistan Muslim League- Nawaz (PML-N) of Nawaz Sharif , also a former premier, will form a government together within 30 days, they said.
The opposition parties, which routed President Pervez Musharraf's political backers in the February 18 elections, have been slow to form a government as the process and timing of reinstating senior judges Musharraf removed from office under an emergency order on November 3, is proving a major stumbling block.
"It was decided that reinstatement of the deposed judges shall be brought about by parliamentary resolution in 30 days," after parliament has convened, Sharif said after the parties met in Bhurban north of Islamabad.
The 30-day period was a compromise. The PML-N had wanted to immediately reinstate the deposed justices, a move that could have annoyed the embattled president. The PPP favoured avoiding a direct confrontation with Musharraf .
Musharraf said Friday he would convene the new parliament within two weeks and assured the coalition government of his full support.
Bhutto and Sharif's parties finished first and second in the February 18 election, while the ruling Pakistan Muslim League- Quaid , Musharraf's political backers, finished a distant third and was relegated to the opposition.