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Sharif seeks to heal rifts with president, judiciary
ISLAMABAD, Nov 23: Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is seeking to heal rifts with the president and the Judiciary after army mediation helped defuse a constitutional crisis, political sources said today, reports AFP.
Tensions eased four days ago after Army Chief General Je-hanglr Karamat stepped in an parliament backed off from a move to impeach President Farooq Ahmed Leghari.
The following day the Supreme Court Chief Justice. Sajjad Ali Shah, adjourned for a week a crucial contempt case against Sharif that threatens his nine-month rule if a conviction disqualified him from office.
Relieved from pressure that forced him to cancel a visit to Bangladesh and kept him em-broHed in party meetings, Sharif has been presiding over an investment conference and
an air force graduation ceremony.
The government will "revive its relations with both the president and the chief Justice, said one of Sharifs close confidants Nisar Ali Khan. Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources.
Restoring a working relationship with Leghari and the Judiciary Is the "foremost priority" of the government, he said.
It was in the national Interest to "forget the past bitterness and work together", he said.
Everything is under control, Sharif himself told reporters during the air force ceremony Saturday at Rissalpur. which was attended by top military officials including General Karamat.
Downplaying the crisis he said some problems had cropped up because of "misunderstandings" which had been overcome.
But observers said the crisis could resurface, with the contempt case still alive despite Sharifs personal appearance in the court to express his high regard for the Judiciary and his badly-strained ties with Leghari.
Another potential irritant is a petition before the court challenging a constitutional amendment pushed through by Sharif which slashed presidential powers, including the authority to dissolve the assembly which Leghari used in November 1996 to dismiss Benazir Bhutto as premier.
'The country may have heaved a sigh of relief at the apparent ceasefire between warring institutions of the state, but troubling questions remain." said an editorial in the Nation Daily.
The newspaper said it would "not be easy to restore mutual confidence and re-establish a
functional relationship" between the president and the prime minister.
Leghari caused uproar in the government last week when he delayed signing into law a hastily-passed Dill to amend the 1976 Contempt Act.
The amendment would give Sharif the right of appeal that would put any conviction for contempt in abeyance pending a hearing by a bench excluding Supreme Court Judges now handling the case.
Snarif faces a contempt charge following comments ne made about the Judiciary at a news conference.
4 Earlier Sharif was locked In a row with the Judiciary over appointments of Judges in October. That dispute was defused when he raised five high court Judges to the Supreme Court as recommended by the chief justice.