Sharif has also made it clear that the constitutional package for judicial reforms is a “separate issue”.

PML-N leaders, however, said their party would back the package when it is introduced in parliament after the reinstatement of the deposed judges.

“I am happy to tell you that the PPP and PML-N have decided that according to the Bhurban Declaration, the judges will be restored to their pre-November 3, 2007 position,” Sharif said, referring to the sacking of the judges by Musharraf after he imposed emergency last year.

“The judges will be restored and no one can stop us. This is a revolutionary decision for Pakistan because we are undoing the damage Musharraf had done to this country by throwing the judges out of court,” he said. “The judges will go back to their courts with honour, dignity and respect.”

The former prime minister is scheduled to announce the details of the agreement between the PPP and PML-N in Lahore later on Friday.

However, there is a strong possibility that the Supreme Court would take suo motu notice of the restoration of the judges.

A petition seeking a stay order against any such parliamentary resolution or executive order that is pending in the apex court might be taken up soon after the reinstatement of the judges, the official said.

The official said the President’s principal legal aide Sharifuddin Pirzada, who had briefed him on the constitutional position of the non-binding parliamentary resolution and any subsequent executive order, would represent him in the Supreme Court.