Coalition rift widens over Punjab governor

Pakistani lawyers say they will resume street protests next month because of the government’s failure to reinstate judges ousted by Pervez Musharraf, the president. The decision came after about 60 senior leaders of the country's powerful lawyers' ...

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The new Governor of Punjab, Mr Salman Taseer, has vowed to make the province a stronghold of the Pakistan People�s Party. In a brief speech after taking oath on Friday, Mr Taseer said he represented the PPP in the province. Amid chants of ...

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Sharif Cleared to Run for Parliament Published: May 16, 2008 An election tribunal in Lahore accepted the nomination papers of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif , paving the way for him to run in legislative elections on June 18....

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Comment is free The refusal yesterday of the head of Pakistan's ruling coalition to accept the resignations of nine ministers of Nawaz Sharif's party is a sign of the gravity of the situation facing the winners of Pakistan's recent elections. The ...

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Thinking of new political alignments, power circles in Islamabad are engaged in fresh calculations to provide two-thirds majority for the government by cobbling together a PPP and PML-Q alliance. �The PPP and the PML-Q, minus the PML-N but ...

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Q Secretary General Mushahid Hussain Syed on Friday offered cooperation of his party's legal experts to the ruling coalition for the restoration of the deposed judges. "We pray and hope that the issues being faced by the general public would be ...

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Salmaan Taseer was sworn in as the 27th Governor of the Punjab in a ceremony boycotted by the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) here on Friday. The Lahore High Court Chief Justice, Syed Zahid Hussain, administered the oath. Soon after taking the ...

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Cracks in Pakistan’s ruling coalition have widened over the appointment of a new Governor in the Punjab province. He is viewed as a political adversary by Nawaz Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim League (N), which leads the provincial ruling coalition. ...

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N chief Nawaz Sharif�s announcement to join the lawyers� anti-government agitation for reinstatement of the deposed judges, the PPP leader Asif Zardari has appointed a known Sharif-hater as the new Governor of Punjab, being run by a PML-N ...

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Pakistan’s fragile ruling coalition on Friday saw the rift between the key partners widening over a controversial gubernatorial appointment in the crucial Punjab province, with PML(N) warning that the alliance would be in danger if the PPP took ...

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