The government has said its contacts with opposition political parties will not bring a sudden change but take time to start impacting the politics.
"These contacts are to create a right environment for general elections and make them incredible. They are not to change things abruptly," Information Minister Muhammad Ali Durrani told a news conference here on Wednesday. He was briefing media about the meetings of the federal cabinet earlier in the day.
Durrani did not come up with a clear answer whether the constitution is being amended to clear hurdles for both Pervez Musharraf and Pakistan Peoples Party chairperson Benazir Bhutto become a civilian president and premier third time respectively.
The minister said the government did want to hold a meeting of all political parties if they wished the same. Durrani said the cabinet had backed President General Pervez Musharraf's contacts with opposition parties to help create a 'national consensus ahead of the election.'