Joint strategy for reconciliation in Pakistan between Nawaz Sharif and PPP

PAKISTAN CRISIS NEWS: Nawaz Sharif said today that his opposition PML-N party and the ruling Pakistan
People's Party (PPP) will be evolving a joint strategy for political reconciliation in the wake of the decision of the government to reinstate judges deposed during the emergency of 2007.

Nawaz Sharif conveyed this when the Prime Minister of Pakistan Yousuf Raza Gilani telephoned him as well as his brother, former Chief Minister of Punjab, Shahbaz Sharif, to discuss about the political situation in Pakistan after the government's move to reinstate former Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry and other deposed judges.

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Yousuf Raza Gilani told "political reconciliation among the democratic forces of the country would bring a positive change in the whole system." He also added that it will help the country confront the challenges before it.

Giving in to pressure from the lawyers' movement along with the PML-N that organised a long march to press for the restoration of all the deposed judges. PPP-led government today said that the judges would be reinstated to their former positions.

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Pakistan government climbdown, judges resume office from March 21

Top judges have been restored in Pakistan. Two long years after the dismissal of judges, it seems that Pakistan desperately needed rule of law and marks up a victory for opposition leader Nawaz Sharif, says analysts.

Under public pressure, the Pakistan government on Monday agreed to reinstate the judges and end a repressive crackdown on activists.

Prime Minister of Pakistan Yousuf Raza Gilani addressed to the nation announced that deposed chief justice Iftikhar Chaudhry and other judges sacked by former military ruler Pervez Musharraf in 2007 can resume the office from 21 March 2009.

This decision of Pakistan Prime Minister came after a series of meetings held with President Asif Ali Zardari and army chief General Ashfaq Kayani. This decision was taken to avert bloodshed and instability in the frontline US ally in the "war on terror".

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The opposition leader, Nawaj Sharif who galvanised opponents of Zardari and led thousands of protestors in a march out of Lahore hailed this announcement of the Pakistan government and soon after called off the mass protest.

It is said that the government's climbdown is widely a product of Western pressure on Zardari to defuse the standoff with Sharif. Gilani's orders also announced to release hundreds of people in detention as a victory for rights.




Nawaz Sharif Historical Address before LONG MARCH on 15th March 2009


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