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Pakistan People's Party (PPP) co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari overcame pressure and enticement from President Pervez Musharraf's [Images] camp and the
Zardari, who announced along with Sharif that their parties would form a coalition, was offered governments at the Centre and at least three of the four provinces if he distanced himself from the PML-N and allied with the PML-Q and other pro-Musharraf forces. However, Zardari told members of the President's camp who approached him that he did not consider the PML-Q "a political entity", The News reported.
Despite reservations of some PPP leaders from
Zardari also expressed confidence that the PPP and PML-N, the two most popular parties, would sort out all issues to make a workable coalition both at the Centre and in the provinces.
The PPP, which has emerged as the single largest party with 88 seats and Sharif's PML-N together have 153 seats with votes counted in 258 out of 272 constituencies.
Though Zardari did not talk of pressure from the
Zardari ruled out working with the PML-Q but said he wanted to include the MQM in a national consensus government.
His decision to work with the MQM may have been influenced by that party's strong performance in PPP's traditional stronghold of Sindh, especially the commercial hub of
The PML-N's foremost priority - the reinstatement of judges deposed during last year's emergency did not get the approval from Washington despite the fact that this is the most popular demand of the people within Pakistan, The News reported.
The PPP, a source said, is not averse to reinstating deposed judges but only differs with the PML-N on the strategy for this. Initially, it was the PPP's slain chairperson Benazir Bhutto who publicly called deposed chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry "her chief justice and demanded the reinstatement of all sacked judges".
However, following pressure from the
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