Sharif threatens to quit Pakistan coalition: report

[Adsos Letter]

Source: Reuters

Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has threatened to pull his party out of Pakistan's ruling coalition it does not decide by Friday to reinstate judges purged by former president Pervez Musharraf, the Wall Street Journal reported.

The deadlock over the judges opened up cracks in the coalition led by slain Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party (PPP) soon after Musharraf, faced with the threat of impeachment, resigned on Monday.

Sharif told the newspaper that the sacking of the judges last year had shaken the foundations of the country and it was necessary to restore them to their jobs.

The PPP led by Bhutto's widower Asif Ali Zardari, has wavered over restoring the judges, partly because of concern the deposed chief justice might take up challenges to an amnesty from graft charges granted to party leaders last year, analysts say.



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The article states that they are seriously trying to work this out. I hope so; I hope that nation doesn't realize it's potential to totally come apart...

[Igel]

1. There was a recent op-ed that summarized my thoughts on Sharif.

He's a proud, bitter man.

Pakistan is not what's important to Sharif. Sharif and his honor are.