Pakistan's former prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, will stand for parliament in a by-election, a party spokesman says.Mr Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League-N party is currently in negotiations over joining a coalition government.
His party won the second highest number of seats in polls that last week delivered a huge blow to President Pervez Musharraf's allies.
Mr Sharif currently does not have a parliamentary seat and is ineligible to stand for PM.
He is also barred from being prime minister again because he has already held the office twice.
His party has already said it will ask its coalition partner to provide a PM.
The PML-N last week agreed to join a coalition headed by the Pakistan People's Party (PPP), which won the most seats in the parliamentary polls.
The PPP is widely expected to nominate its vice chairman and stalwart, Makhdoom Amin Fahim, as prime minister.
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