Pakistani government and the main opposition party are involved in talks for holding early parliamentary elections, local media reported on Sunday.

Urdu-language Dawn TV reported that Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf will announce the roadmap for the next general elections on August 14, the day when the country celebrates its independence day.

There was neither denial nor confirmation from the government and the opposition.

The ruling Pakistan People's Party (PPP) and the opposition Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) held a meeting on Sunday to discuss the upcoming general elections, said the report.

The report said by quoting unidentified sources that the general elections are expected in the first week of November, however, the prime minister will formally announce the road-map on August 14.

Parliamentary polls are due early next year on the completion of five-year constitutional term of the government which had taken over after the February 2008 general elections.

It was agreed in the meeting that the prime minister, chief ministers, and other federal and state ministers in the care-taker set-up will be residents of Pakistan, indicating those who have dual nationality will be excluded.

The care-taker prime minister will neither be from the PPP or the PML-N, nor one who has been a member or leader of any other political party, the sources added.

Both the PML-N and the PPP, in consultation with other political parties, will also formulate code of conduct for the general election.

The meeting also decided that no references will be filed against any political leader till the next elections by the country's anti-graft body.

The sources also said that the negotiations between the PML-N and the PPP on the care-taker setup were supported by a few ally countries who wanted politics of reconciliation in the country.

Some media outlets reported that names of two candidates are being discussed for the post of caretaker prime minister: Abdullah Hussain Haroon, currently Pakistan's ambassador to the United Nations,and Asma Jahangir, the former president of the Supreme Court Bar Association and former chairperson of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan.

Reports said that a seven-member team of the senior leader of the PML-N and a five-member PPP took part in the talks.

The talks were held at a time when the government is involved in an apparent clash with the highest judiciary over the graft cases of President Asif Ali Zardari.

The Supreme Court of Pakistan disqualified former Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani after he refused to accept the court's order for reopening of graft cases against the President. The court has now issued the same orders for the new Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf and sought a compliance response by July 25.

When Gilani was disqualified last month, the main opposition and other small groups called for early polls. Legal experts say that the new Prime Minister can also face similar fate like Gilani as he has no other option but to accept the court's order. Ashraf has already indicated not to opt for reopening of graft cases against the President as the government argues Zardari enjoys immunity as head of state in the country and abroad.