The minority bloc of the new coalition government in Pakistan has pulled out of the coalition and seemingly, this marks huge problems for the fledgling government and some would say, causes huge concerns over the very protection of Pakistan's nukes. Here's some of the details from the report at Reuters:
Some are saying that the majority party in Pakistan is going to be able to hang onto the government control but there was a reason why this whole coalition was formed and it probably won't take long for the whole scenario to fall apart.
And in the end, al Qaeda and the Taliban can certainly smell blood in the water. I think it is fairly certain that we will see some bombing attacks targeting the nation's capital as well as some key political figures as the terrorists will try to divide the government even further.
Former Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif pulled his party out of the ruling coalition on Monday, deepening a political crisis that has diverted government attention from pressing security and economic problems.
Sharif said the party of assassinated former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, which leads the coalition, had repeatedly broken promises on resolving a judicial dispute and on who should be the next president.
"We therefore feel that these repeated defaults and violations have forced us to withdraw our support from the ruling coalition and sit on the opposition benches," Sharif told a news conference.
Some are saying that the majority party in Pakistan is going to be able to hang onto the government control but there was a reason why this whole coalition was formed and it probably won't take long for the whole scenario to fall apart.
And in the end, al Qaeda and the Taliban can certainly smell blood in the water. I think it is fairly certain that we will see some bombing attacks targeting the nation's capital as well as some key political figures as the terrorists will try to divide the government even further.
Pakistan's Sharif pulls party out of coalition
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Former Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif pulled his party out of the ruling coalition on Monday, deepening a political crisis that has diverted government attention from pressing security and economic problems.
The move came just a week after the coalition parties had celebrated the resignation of President Pervez Musharraf in the face of the coalition's threat to impeach him.
Sharif said the party of assassinated former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, which leads the coalition, had repeatedly broken promises on resolving a judicial dispute and on who should be the next president.
"We therefore feel that these repeated defaults and violations have forced us to withdraw our support from the ruling coalition and sit on the opposition benches," Sharif told a news conference.
The departure of his party is not expected to force a general election as Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party (PPP), now led by her widower Asif Ali Zardari, should be able to gather enough support to govern, analysts say.
Sharif also said he would not try to destabilize the government. "We'll play the role of a constructive opposition."
The coalition, formed after Musharraf's allies lost a February general election, had looked increasingly precarious since Musharraf resigned a week ago.
The PPP and Sharif's party were bitter rivals during the 1980s and 90s, when Bhutto and Sharif were both chosen twice as prime minister, but they found common ground more recently in their opposition to Musharraf.
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