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| India-Pakistan |
| Nawaz, Shahbaz elected parliamentary leaders |
| 2008-02-22 |
| The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s (PML-N) central executive committee (CEC) pledged on Thursday the party would not become part of a coalition government that might compromise on the sacked judges’ restoration issue. The PML-N wants the restoration of the judiciary President Pervez Musharraf sacked after he promulgated emergency rule on November 3, 2007. The CEC nominated PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif and his brother Shahbaz Sharif as parliamentary leaders in the national and Punjab assemblies, respectively. The meeting participants decided that the Sharif brothers would contest by-elections to make their way to the assemblies. PML-N leader Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan told reporters after the meeting that the party vowed to restore the 1973 Constitution and form an “independent” election commission. |
| Posted by:Fred |