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Philadelphia Inquirer
May 3, 2008
LAHORE, Pakistan - Pakistan's new leaders have set May 12 as the date to restore judges ousted by President Pervez Musharraf, a top official said yesterday, further threatening Musharraf's already diminished grip on power. A Musharraf ally cautioned, however, that reinstating the judges would not be so easy.
Restoring the judges has been a top priority for the two main parties in Pakistan's month-old government, but disputes over how to bring the judges back had threatened to break up the coalition. After marathon talks in Dubai this week, coalition officials finally came to a deal.
"The National Assembly will pass a resolution" to restore the judges, Nawaz Sharif, head of the second-biggest party in the coalition, told reporters. But Sheikh Rashid Ahmad, a former minister and prominent Musharraf ally, predicted the coalition's plan would run into legal problems. It would take a constitutional amendment to reverse Musharraf's purge of the courts, he said.
--AP
May 3, 2008
LAHORE, Pakistan - Pakistan's new leaders have set May 12 as the date to restore judges ousted by President Pervez Musharraf, a top official said yesterday, further threatening Musharraf's already diminished grip on power. A Musharraf ally cautioned, however, that reinstating the judges would not be so easy.
Restoring the judges has been a top priority for the two main parties in Pakistan's month-old government, but disputes over how to bring the judges back had threatened to break up the coalition. After marathon talks in Dubai this week, coalition officials finally came to a deal.
"The National Assembly will pass a resolution" to restore the judges, Nawaz Sharif, head of the second-biggest party in the coalition, told reporters. But Sheikh Rashid Ahmad, a former minister and prominent Musharraf ally, predicted the coalition's plan would run into legal problems. It would take a constitutional amendment to reverse Musharraf's purge of the courts, he said.
--AP