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Pakistan's Sharif sets new deadline for restoration of judges
Former Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif agreed on Friday to a debate in parliament next week on the restoration of judges deposed last year.
- Agencies
- Published: 09:32 August 22, 2008
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Islamabad: Former Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif agreed on Friday to a debate in parliament next week on the restoration of judges deposed last year.
Sharif has been demanding that the judges former president Pervez Musharraf purged should be restored.
Sharif set Wednesday as a new deadline for the restoration of the judges.
He had threatened to pull his party out of a coalition with the party of assassinated former prime minister Benazir Bhutto if that was not done by Friday.
Another divisive issue in the coalition's discussion on Friday is likely to be the question of the next president.
The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) is proposing Bhutto's widower, Asif Ali Zardari, and is set to make an announcement on his nomination on Friday.
The PPP and Sharif's party were bitter rivals during the 1990s when Bhutto and Sharif both served two terms as prime minister.
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