Law Minister Babar Awan. — Photo by APP

ISLAMABAD: Law Minister Babar Awan on Monday said that the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) has never given any deadlines, not does it accept any.

Earlier, the leadership of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) expressed its dissatisfaction over inaction on the part of the government in implementing the party’s 10-point ‘reforms agenda’ and said that its 45-day deadline would not be extended.

Awan further said that Chief Minister Punjab Shahbaz Sharif's statement will lead to reservations among the smaller provinces.

On Sunday, Shahbaz Sharif reiterated the PML-N’s line that the fate of the PPP ministers in the Punjab cabinet would be decided on February 22, which is a day earlier than the deadline given by the PML-N to the government to implement its “reform agenda”.

The chief minister went so far as to say that the meeting to depose the PPP ministers would be held in Islamabad.

Mr Sharif’s words did not take anyone by surprise as the party’s Punjab leadership had already said this before in so many words. In fact, just a day earlier Mr Sanaullah had asserted that the PML-N government in the province would remove the PPP from the coalition government over the federal government’s failure to implement the ‘reforms agenda’.

Also on Sunday, Sindh Interior Minister Dr Zulfiqar Mirza threatened that no office of the PML-N from Karachi to Kashmore would be safe if the PPP came under an undemocratic or illegal attack.

Separately, senior provincial minister Raja Riaz from the PPP on Monday declared two PML-N provincial ministers as corrupt and demanded PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif and Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif to take action against them.