Islamabad (PTI): Pakistan People's Party chief Asif Ali Zardari has convened a meeting of his party's parliamentarians and legislators Wednesday to take stock of the situation after the PML-N's decision to withdraw from the ruling coalition.

The PML-N decided to pull out its ministers from the coalition government Monday after the expiry of the second deadline for reinstating dozens of judges sacked by President Pervez Musharraf last year.

PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif said his party would continue to support the PPP-led government on the basis of issues.

Zardari, who is currently abroad, has said the PPP will continue talks with its ally PML-N to change its decision to quit the federal cabinet.

The PPP has also said that the PML-N's withdrawal from the cabinet was not "the beginning of the end for the coalition".

A statement issued by the PPP said a joint meeting of the party's parliamentarians, senators, legislators from Punjab province and members of the central executive committee and federal council from Punjab will he held in Zardari House here on Wednesday evening.

Zardari, who is set to return to Islamabad later Tuesday, will preside over the meeting to "take stock of the latest political situation in the country", the statement said.