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Pakistan Coalition Leaders Attempt to Break Judicial Deadlock |
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Wednesday, 30 April 2008
Leaders of Pakistan's coalition government are holding a final round of talks in Dubai Wednesday, in hopes of salvaging a promise to reinstate Pakistan's deposed judges before the April 30 deadline.
Coalition leaders Asif Ali Zardari and former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif are meeting to work out disagreements on the reinstatement, after recent talks by their representatives failed.
Zardari's Pakistan People's Party wants to link reinstatement of the judges to constitutional reforms. But Mr. Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz party wants them reinstated unconditionally.
Last November President Pervez Musharraf dismissed roughly 60 of Pakistan's high court judges, including chief justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, during a state of emergency.
But Mr. Musharraf's former ruling Pakistan Muslim League party came in a distant third in February's parliamentary elections, and the new coalition government vowed to reinstate the judges within 30 days of taking office.
A senior official from Mr. Sharif's PML-N party says the party may pull its ministers from the cabinet if the judges are not reinstated on time, although he said the party will remain in the coalition.
By VOA News
30 April 2008
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Wednesday, 30 April 2008
Pakistan
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