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ISLAMABAD - Pakistani Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani scrambled to save his ruling coalition on Monday after a key partner withdrew, plunging a country vital to U.S. efforts to pacify Afghanistan into a political crisis.
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The second largest party in Pakistan’s coalition said on Sunday it would go into opposition, depriving the government, a strategic US ally, of its majority in the National Assembly.
The second largest party in Pakistan's coalition said on Sunday it would go into opposition, depriving the government, a strategic US ally, of its majority and raising the prospect of an early election.
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s government scrambled on Monday to survive after losing its majority, tipping the nuclear-armed state into a political crisis threatening to destabilise the US ally in the war on Al-Qaeda.
Pakistan’s government lost its parliamentary majority on Jan. 2 after a key coalition partner, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), announced it would go into opposition, plunging the country vital for US efforts to pacify Afghanistan into a deep political crisis.
Pakistani Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani held talks with opposition leaders on Monday in a bid to head off a possible vote of no confidence after a key partner quit the governing coalition.
Pakistani PM Yusuf Raza Gilani is due to meet a leader of the main opposition party in a bid to head off a possible vote of no confidence against him.
KARACHI - At least four people, including a girl, were killed and more than 30 sustained bullet injuries in different localities of Karachi on New Year’s eve, police and hospital sources said. Most of them were hit by stray bullets fired by revellers who resorted to aerial firing just before the clock struck midnight, heralding the arrival of new year.
ISLAMABAD - The government raised the POL prices by 5.4 to 9 per cent from Saturday, inviting immediate flak from the opposition and allies.
KARACHI - President Asif Ali Zardari on Saturday signed the 19th Amendment Bill, making it a part of the constitution.