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Pak ruling coalition vows to reinstate judges

AFP, Islamabad
Pakistan's ruling coalition yester day renewed its pledge to reinstate dozens of judges who were sacked by embattled President Pervez Musharraf, a minister said after a key high level meeting
Asif Ali Zardari, the widower of slain opposition leader Benazir Bhutto and head of her Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), met with former premier Nawaz. Sharif of the Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) in Islamabad.
The two parties trounced Musharraf's allies in elections in February, and then pledged at a summit in the mountain resort of Bhurban to restore die chief justice and other judges within 30 days of forming a government. But Tuesday's meeting between Zardari and Sharif came amid local reports of divisions over the issue within the coalition, whose mem hers were at each other's throats during their periods in government in the 1990s.
The coalition "renewed its commitment to the Bhurban det laration." Information Minister Sherry Rehman said in a statement issued after the meeting.
"T he meeting was one of a series that the coalition intends to have regularly," said Rehman, Bhutto's former spokeswoman.
Musharraf sacked the country's chief justice and dozens of other judges under a state of emergency in November, when it appeared that the Supreme Court was about to overturn his re-election as presi-
dent the month before.
The judges could in theory challenge Musharrafs position and so restoring them with their full powers would spark a major confrontation with the US backed president.
New Prime MinisterYousaf Raza Gilani, once a key aide to Bhutto, freed chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry from house arrest last month, but analysts say the PPP wants to avoid an overt standoff with Musharraf for now.
1 lowcver Sharif, the man ousted by Musharraf in 1999, has openly called for the president to quit and made the restoration of the outspoken Chaudhry a key plank of his policy platform.
Reports say there is even a split about when the government was
officially formed, with the PPP saying it was after provincial assemblies were sworn in and Sharif 's party saying it was after the federal cabinet took office on March 31.
Sharif left Zardari's residence, where the meeting was held, without speaking to the media.
His spokesman, Siddiqui Farooq, told AFP earlier that it would be an "important meeting. The agenda is restoration of judges and revival of the constitution as it was before the October 12, 1999 coup."
Raja Pervez Ashraf, minister for water and power, told reporters that the coalition leaders "only took stock of the political situation and nothing extraordinary can be attached with tills meeting.”