The birth of a new government in Libya, due today, was put off indefinitely amid disputes over portfolios and as Muammar Gaddafi diehards put up stiff resistance in their remaining strongholds. National Transitional Council, NTC number two Mahmud Jibril said, last-minute haggling delayed the announcement of the new Cabinet line-up before reluctantly announcing to the media that the unveiling would be postponed indefinitely. Progress by NTC fighters hoping to crush the last pockets of resistance in Gaddafi bastions, also appeared stalemated, as the fugitive's loyalists in his hometown of Sirte and the oasis of Bani Walid, refused to yield.