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Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
"I want to inform the entire nation that on May 12 , all deposed judges will be restored,'' Nawaz Sharif told journalists in Lahore after a crisis meeting with the head of the other major party in Pakistan's governing coalition, Asif Zardari. But it didn't happen, so on May 13 Sharif pulled all nine ministers of his Pakistan Muslim League - Nawaz (PML-N) party out of the...
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Pakistan Times! (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
ISLAMABAD: Nine federal cabinet members of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) on Tuesday submitted their resignations to the prime minister. PML-N ministers Khwaja Saad Rafique, Ishaq Dar, Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, Rana Tanveer Hussain, Tehmina Daulatana, Khwaja Asif, Chaudhry Nisar, Ahsan Iqbal and Sardar Mehtab Khan reached Prime Minister House here and tendered their written resignations...
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Global Security (Free subscription) | yesterday
Pakistan's Zardari Tries to Ease Concerns About Fragile CoalitionBy VOA News 14 May 2008The leader of Pakistan's main ruling party says he is optimistic the country's six-week-old governing coalition will remain intact despite the Cabinet resignations of a key coalition partner.Asif Ali Zardari says there is still disagreement between his Pakistan People's Party and the party of former Prime Minister...
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Net News Publisher (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
Pakistan's coalition government will be no more, announced Nawaz Sharif, leader of the Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) and former Prime Minister. The coalition, which was formed between the PML-N and the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), was said to have reached a disagreement over the restoration of judges fired by President Pervez Musharraf in November 2007. According...
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MND/BlogWonks: Your Alternate Daily (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
Pakistan's coalition government will be no more, announced Nawaz Sharif, leader of the Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) and former Prime Minister. The coalition, which was formed between the PML-N and the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), was said to have reached a disagreement over the restoration of judges fired by President Pervez Musharraf in November 2007. According...
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Thaindian News (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Islamabad, May 14 (IANS) Contrary to popular perception, it now emerges that it is former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and not Asif Ali Zardari, co-chair of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) that heads the country's ruling coalition, who is calling the shots in Pakistan's political roller coaster ride. This view is reinforced by the fact [...]
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News: Moldova.org: Politics (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
Pakistan's 6-week-old ruling coalition was in turmoil Tuesday as nine ministers of one of the parties quit over the failure to restore dismissed judges.Those leaving represent the Pakistan Muslim League led by former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif who made the judges' reinstatement a priority when his party joined the senior coalition partner, the Pakistan People's Party...
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People Daily (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
The ministers from the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) submitted their resignations to Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani Tuesday afternoon, marking the end of the six-week-old coalition government. PML-N leader Nawaz Sharif ann ...
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People Daily (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
The ministers from the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) will submit their resignations to Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Tuesday afternoon, marking the end of the six-week-old coalition government. The ministers will submi ...
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OTB News (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif says his Pakistan Muslim League-N party will relinquish its Cabinet posts but continue to negotiate with the Pakistan People’s Party. One of the two main parties in [...]
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Thaindian News (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Islamabad, May 14 (IANS) The political crisis caused by the collapse of Pakistan's ruling coalition is impacting on the country's budget making exercise, with bureaucrats apprehending they would not be able to complete the task by the early June deadline. Pakistan's fiscal 2008-09 begins July 1. Finance Minister Ishaq Dar was among the nine ministers of [...]
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Global Security (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
Pakistan: Islamabad Plunged Into Political Crisis After Nine Ministers ResignBy Ron SynovitzPakistan is in the midst of a political crisis after nine ministers from the party of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif resigned from the cabinet because of a disagreement over reinstating sacked judges.Sharif insists that his party will continue to support Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, who is from the...
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LA Times (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif says his Pakistan Muslim League-N party will relinquish its Cabinet posts but continue to negotiate with the Pakistan People's Party. One of the two main parties in Pakistan's ruling coalition declared Monday that it would quit the government in a dispute over when and how to reinstate judges fired by President Pervez Musharraf during...
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News: Moldova.org: Politics (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
Part of Pakistan's coalition government said Monday it was quitting its Cabinet posts over the failed reinstatement of judges President Pervez Musharraf ousted.The Pakistan Muslim League-N vowed to vacate its nine posts in the 24-member Cabinet, threatening the coalition government's stability.Nawaz Sharif, who leads the party, said he insisted that 57 supreme and high court...
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abdulruff | 05/14/2008
Pakistan : Enter a New Crisis? Judges in Pakistan seem to have lost their case. Annoyed with government's delay tactics on restoration of judges sacked by President Pervez Musharraf during last year's emergency, Pakistan
