Pakistan Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali would seek a vote of confidence in Parliament on December 30 even as President Gen Pervez Musharraf has been asserting that the governments installed at the Centre and provinces after the general election are secure and stable.

Jamali, leader of the Pakistan Muslim League (Qaid-e-Azam), has to seek the vote from the national assembly, as per a constitutional requirement, within 60 days of taking over as the prime minister.

The PML(Q) has 173 seats in the 342-member national assembly, including the support of 10 dissidents of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party and the 17-member Muthahida Quami Movement.

Six of the PPP dissidents have been given top ministerial posts while the MQM's demands that its nominee be appointed the governor of Sindh, a majority share of the ministries in the Sindh government and lifting of restrictions on its cadre to move in areas controlled by its rivals have been accepted.

"Even those opposing the Jamali government are saying that they will not let it fall," Musharraf had said on Wednesday at the wedding ceremony of his aide Tariq Aziz's daughter.

Everybody wants the civilian system to work, Musharraf said.

"It is not a weak government. Who will leave it? No one," he insisted while heaping praise on the PPP members who supported the Jamali government, calling them sensible people.

Meanwhile, the alliance of religious parties, the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal, which supports the PML-Q in Baluchistan, on Wednesday said that it would not soften its stand towards Jamali 'as he has failed to convince Musharraf to quit as army chief and scale down his powers to dismiss parliament'.

Senior MMA leader Liaquat Baloch, who met Jamali on Wednesday, said the prime minister has said that he would soon resume talks with the pro-Islam alliance to narrow down differences.

He said the Jamali government does not need the support of the MMA for survival as the MQM, which had threatened to withdraw support, has reversed its decision.

"In fact, they will be better off without us. The Jamali government has the support of the MQM at the Centre as well as in Sindh," he said.

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