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Sharif's party quits Pak cabinet

AFP, PTI, Islamabad
Pakistan faced a new political crisis yesterday after former premier Nawaz Sharif pulled his party's ministers out of the country's six-week-old coalition government, officials said.
The nine ministers from Sharif s Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) stepped down after the coalition failed to meet a Monday deadline on how and when to reinstate judges sacked by President Pervez Musharraf last year.
The eventual reinstatement of the judges is likely to cause a major headache for embattled former army chief Musharraf, a key US ally, who considers them hostile to his rule.
The ministers had submitted their resignations to Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani. PML-N spokesman Siddiqui Farooq said, insisting they would only return if the Pakistan People's Party took concrete steps to resolve the issue.
"If the PPP takes concrete steps to restore the judiciary to the position of November 2 (before emergency rule), we will revert to our party's central working committee to seek advice given the changed circumstances," he told AFP.
"Our ministers may rejoin the cabinet if so advised."
Pakistan People's Party chief Asif Ali Zardari has convened a meeting of his party's parliamentarians and legislators on TUesday to take stock of the political situation after the PML-N's decision to withdraw from the ruling coalition.
Zardari, who is currently abroad, has said the PPP will continue talks with its ally PML-N to get it to reverse its decision to quit the federal cabinet.
The PPP has also said that the PML-N's withdrawal from the cabinet was not "the beginning of the end for the coalition".
The move is likely to trigger political uncertainty, although Sharif insisted on Monday that his party would continue to support the government of Gilani, who had not yet accepted the resignations, according to state media.
The Pakistan People's Party (PPP) of slain former premier Benazir Bhutto, the senior partner in the coalition that swept into power following February general elections, said it hoped the PML-N ministers would soon return.
"Let's wait and try to resolve the matter," Gilani told the outgoing ministers, saying Pakistan was in the grip of a "serious crisis.'
life are determined to take the nation out of the crisis, with the cooperation of our allies," state media quoted him as saying,
appealing to the judiciary to show "some flexibility" to stave off politicalupheaval.
Gilani also spoke to Sharif by telephone, who told him that the decision to pull his parry from government was “painnil." and that he would continue to cooperate with the government.
Musharraf, who came to power following a coup in 1999, deposed chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry and dozens of other judges In Noversber'-wttert it appeared they might overturn his re-election as president the month before.
The judges were also to rule on a decree issued by Musharraf granting amnesty to political leaders charged with corruption. PPP co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari, Bhutto's widower, himself is a beneficiary of the law.
Sharif and Zardari agreed in March to restore the judges, but differences quickly arose over howto put them back on the bench.
A series of crunch talks between the two sides failed to resolve the stalemate.