Word: zardari
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Wants the ousted judges reinstated and opposes Zardari's recently declared bid for the presidency...
...Asif Ali Zardari Pakistan Peoples Party...
...that Musharraf has gone, the country needs to come together. Too much time has been spent blaming Musharraf rather than finding solutions to Pakistan's pressing problems. Pakistan must look to the future and break decisively from its past. For Sharif and Bhutto's widower Asif Zardari, leaders of the two mainstream parties, this means avoiding a return to the vindictiveness and squabbling that characterized relations between their parties in the 1990s and undermined Pakistan's previous experiment with democracy. Their first test will be the selection of a new President, where it is essential that a nonpartisan, mutually acceptable...
...focus is turning toward Pakistan's delicately stitched-together coalition government, for which Musharraf has proved a source of common enmity and cohesion. The two parties led by Sharif and Bhutto's widower, Asif Ali Zardari, could start wrangling over Musharraf's freshly evacuated seat. Zardari has deflected suggestions that he's interested, but suspicions linger that he may wish to become the next head of state - if only as a ceremonial figure. The coalition has vowed to claw back the wide-ranging powers with which Musharraf endowed the presidency...
...equivocation lost the PPP considerable support as critics accused it of trying to preserve Musharraf in office. There were charges of vested interest: the Musharraf appointed-court had cleared Zardari of corruption charges against him through an amnesty issued by the president. Chaudhry, the deposed chief justice, has threatened to revoke that order. In the end, after a long night of negotiations, Zardari relented. The only injustice perhaps left is that Chaudhry will have no say in Musharraf's fate. He will not return to the bench until Musharraf is out of office...