KARACHI - Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), the coalition partner of PPP in Sindh, has demanded six federal ministries to join PPP coalition government at the centre, a close aide of President Asif Zardari and central leader of PPP revealed to The Nation here on Saturday. According to the source, PPP was ready to induct three federal ministers and one parliamentary secretary of MQM at the centre while the MQM is demanding six federal ministers to join PPP-led government at the centre. After the demand of MQM, Zardari called the Chief Minister Sindh, Syed Qaim Ali Shah, senior minister Pir Mazhar-ul-Haq and Sindh Home Minister Dr Zulfiqar Mirza and held a meeting with them to discuss the over all coordination with the MQM. Moreover, the President has set up a committee which comprises Federal Minister Syed Khursheed Shah, Advisor to PM on Interior, Rehman Malik, and Minister for Information and Broadcasting, Sherry Rehman, to hold dialogue with the MQM to finalise power sharing deal at the centre. They said that Governor of the Punjab, Salman Taseer, had also held a meeting with the Governor Sindh Ishratul Ebad to convince him to accept the offer of three federal ministers and one parliamentary secretary from MQM in the federal cabinet. Sources in PPP added that five PPP ministers from Sindh would be inducted in the federal cabinet while other four PPP ministers from the Punjab and NWFP have also been inducted in the federal cabinet.