LAHORE: Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah said on Tuesday consultation about the caretaker prime minister was under way and expressed hope that the name would be finalised by this evening or tomorrow.  

In a statement, the PML-N leader said the caretaker set-up would perform its constitutional duty of carrying out delimitations. He said the delimitation process would take 120 days. After completion of the delimitation process, he said, elections would be conducted. 

As for the names of the caretaker PM, the minister said names were under discussion and no name had been finalised yet. 

He said it's an old policy that no negotiation with terrorists would be held as no encouraging results emerged after talks with terrorists last year. He said the law and order situation in a province needed attention. 

The minister said elections would not be unnecessarily delayed and the caretaker government and security agencies would ensure security and other aspects. 

He said people from neighbouring country were involved in terrorism and the army chief had rightly pointed out the problem. He pledged zero tolerance against terrorism and lauded the role the armed forces and soldiers had played to defend the country.