The oath-taking ceremony of the new AJK cabinet scheduled for today’s morning has been postponed due to a rift within the ruling Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM).

Though, there was no official announcement regarding cancellation of the oath-taking ceremony scheduled to be held at Muzaffarabad on Monday morning at 10am.

The sources said that AJK Prime Minister Chaudhry Abdul Majeed had delayed the formation of his cabinet on the directive of the party co-chairman President Asif Ali Zardari due to the reluctance of senior member and party’s secretary-general Chaudhry Latif Akbar to become a minister.

When contacted, the MQM member and former tourism minister, Tahir Khokhar, said the ruling party had offered both the party legislators to become ministers, but they had refused to do so as they had not received any directives from the party’s decision-making Coordination Committee.