41.   When the new session began last month, the parties evenly shared committee leadership and agreed to trade off the Senate presidency.

42.   Both parties will share key economic posts while Nahit Mentese, a leading True Path official, becomes deputy prime minister.

43.   Both parties would also share the provincial seats.

44.   But despite mutual differences, linked to sectarian interpretations of religious doctrine, the parties share a commitment to promote Islamic values and oppose secular Western culture in Pakistan.

45.   Eleven smaller opposition parties shared the remaining seats.

46.   The two parties shared key economic posts.

47.   The smaller parties will share equally in the remaining parliamentary seats.

48.   The two parties also share platforms on the question of the Hungarian minorities in neighbouring Slovakia, Romania, ex-Yugoslavia and Ukraine.

49.   Particularly worrying is the fact that on agriculture and steel, the Democratic and Republican parties share the same stance, the source added.