02-24-2008, 12:21 AM
<b>Pressure on Asif, Nawaz to work with president</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->ISLAMABAD, Feb 22: Western envoys in Islamabad continued on Friday what seemed to be hectic contacts with the leaders of parties that won last Mondayâs elections amid mounting worries about President Pervez Musharrafâs political future.
The president has come under renewed pressures after the elections threw up all opponents of his iron-fisted rule for more than eight years and crushed the main party of his loyalists.
The meetings, mainly of American and British ambassadors with the leaders of the Pakistan Peopleâs Party (PPP) and Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N), have led to speculations about possible counsels to the makers of the future government to try to co-exist with Musharraf despite years of their mutual hostility.
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The president has come under renewed pressures after the elections threw up all opponents of his iron-fisted rule for more than eight years and crushed the main party of his loyalists.
The meetings, mainly of American and British ambassadors with the leaders of the Pakistan Peopleâs Party (PPP) and Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N), have led to speculations about possible counsels to the makers of the future government to try to co-exist with Musharraf despite years of their mutual hostility.
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