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...Nawaz Sharif inaugurated a new season of political instability by announcing that his Pakistani Muslim League (PML-N) would withdraw on Tuesday from the government led by the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) - the party now led by Asif Ali Zardari, the husband of slain former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto...
...itself unable to work with Sharif's party, it could always seek a new deal with the opposition, which comprises Musharraf's own political supporters. After all, a Musharraf-PPP coalition was exactly what Washington had in mind last year when it brokered the political deal that allowed Benazir Bhutto's ill-fated return to Pakistan...
...ambassador, who three years after his 1992 disappointment badgered and cajoled the warring parties in Bosnia into a peace deal few had thought possible, has the more finely tuned short-range political ear of the two. In a late-December conference call following former Pakistani Prime Minster Benazir Bhutto's assassination, some Clinton policy aides argued for a soft line on President Pervez Musharraf. Holbrooke countered that Clinton should not just slam Musharraf for dictatorial tendencies but also attack George W. Bush for being gullible in trusting the Pakistani leader as much as he had. Holbrooke "was making the point...
...Tuesday, a grim-faced Musharraf administered Gilani's oath of office at the presidential palace. For Gilani it was a moment of triumph - in 2001 Musharraf imprisoned the longtime Bhutto supporter for nearly five years on corruption charges. After the ceremony Musharraf told state-owned television that he would "always extend my fullest cooperation" to Gilani and the new government. But he may find that the new government has other plans...
...power elite who has a grudge against Musharraf. Asif Ali Zardari, who heads the populist PPP, which dominates the ruling coalition and got the most votes in the February 18 elections, blames Musharraf in part for the assassination of his wife, two-time Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. Nawaz Sharif, the head of the Pakistan Muslim League, which was the second largest vote gainer, was deposed by Musharraf in 1999, and forced into exile...