02-28-2008, 01:57 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Graft charges against Zardari dropped </b>
Pioneer.com
Rezaul H Laskar | Islamabad
The Pakistan Government on Wednesday closed corruption cases against Asif Ali Zardari whose PPP will head a new ministry in Pakistan even as the three coalition partners jointly demanded that President Pervez Musharraf immediately convene the National Assembly.
With Musharraf's fate hanging in balance, the graft cases were "terminated" shortly after the Supreme Court dismissed three petitions challenging Musharraf's controversial National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) promulgated last October.
<b>PPP leaders--late Benazir Bhutto and her husband Asif Ali Zardari, now the co-chairman of the single largest party, had got amnesty for the corruption cases dating back to the 1980s and 1990s following Musharraf's order. The cases were terminated by the National Accountability Bureau(NAB).</b>
The action quickly triggered speculation of a possible understanding between Zardari and Musharraf.
As the new MPs from the planned coalition of PPP, PML-N and ANP met for the first time at a joint meeting in a show of strength against Musharraf, PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif upped the ante and appeared to suggest that the President could be impeached when he claimed that the three parties had the required two-thirds majority.
<b>Sharif said the coalition partners would not wait "a single day more" for Parliament to be convened.</b>
"Please see the numbers Musharraf. We already have a two-thirds majority (in the National Assembly) and I would like to inform Musharraf we are not prepared to wait for a single more day for the Assembly to be convened," he told the new MPs to a loud applause at an Islamabad hotel. In all 171 members from PPP,PML-N and Awami National Party attended the meeting. The strength of National Assembly is 272
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Mushy and Sonia Gandhi behave like a identical twins.
Pioneer.com
Rezaul H Laskar | Islamabad
The Pakistan Government on Wednesday closed corruption cases against Asif Ali Zardari whose PPP will head a new ministry in Pakistan even as the three coalition partners jointly demanded that President Pervez Musharraf immediately convene the National Assembly.
With Musharraf's fate hanging in balance, the graft cases were "terminated" shortly after the Supreme Court dismissed three petitions challenging Musharraf's controversial National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) promulgated last October.
<b>PPP leaders--late Benazir Bhutto and her husband Asif Ali Zardari, now the co-chairman of the single largest party, had got amnesty for the corruption cases dating back to the 1980s and 1990s following Musharraf's order. The cases were terminated by the National Accountability Bureau(NAB).</b>
The action quickly triggered speculation of a possible understanding between Zardari and Musharraf.
As the new MPs from the planned coalition of PPP, PML-N and ANP met for the first time at a joint meeting in a show of strength against Musharraf, PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif upped the ante and appeared to suggest that the President could be impeached when he claimed that the three parties had the required two-thirds majority.
<b>Sharif said the coalition partners would not wait "a single day more" for Parliament to be convened.</b>
"Please see the numbers Musharraf. We already have a two-thirds majority (in the National Assembly) and I would like to inform Musharraf we are not prepared to wait for a single more day for the Assembly to be convened," he told the new MPs to a loud applause at an Islamabad hotel. In all 171 members from PPP,PML-N and Awami National Party attended the meeting. The strength of National Assembly is 272
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Mushy and Sonia Gandhi behave like a identical twins.