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...costs. The parliamentary coalition that eclipsed the former military leader, Pervez Musharraf, promised to bring peace and progress. Instead, the new leaders are preoccupied with wrangling over who is in charge. Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani, a stalwart of Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party (PPP), bows to Asif Zardari, Bhutto's widower, who is co-chair of the party but does not hold government office. The government is an unwieldy coalition between bitter enemies: the PPP and the Pakistan Muslim League-N, led by former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif; the two parties traded power three times in eight years...
...stinging rebuke to Musharraf. On Monday, former Prime Minister 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...
...been at loggerheads for more than a decade, but joined forces after the election to restore civilian rule and offer Pakistanis hope that a coalition of their country's two largest parties would bring much-needed stability to the troubled South Asian nuclear power. "Please give us a chance," Zardari said soon after a coalition agreement was finalized in March. "We are bound together in the spirit of democracy...
...Justice. But the issue may be more than simply technical: given Musharraf's opposition to the return of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry as head of the judiciary - which would raise the prospect of Musharraf's ouster on legal grounds - a restoration of the judges could provoke a backlash. Zardari's party is more willing than Sharif is to work with Musharraf, who still enjoys considerable support within the military and from the U.S. (which sees him as a reliable ally in the war on terror). Zardari, moreover, may have his own problems with Chaudhry: the judge last October ruled...
...State John Negroponte on Tuesday. "Now the situation has changed, a truly representative parliament has come into being. Every decision will be presented before the parliament, [and] they will review Musharraf's policy in the last six years," he said, according to Agence-France Presse. Both Sharif and Zardari have suggested negotiating with some of the militants in order to come to a more peaceful resolution of the problem, without resorting to force. "We want to see peace in every corner of the world and we want to see peace in Pakistan also," said Sharif. "[But] we do not want...