In a latest move the senior leader of PML(N) Mr. Javed Hashmi has announced to contest the presidential election following an official press release by the PPP that their leader Mr.Asif Ali Zardari is their nominee for the post of President of Pakistan. The move by PML(N) leader is another clear indication of growing differences between the coalition partner on the issues of restoration of deposed judges and the presidential election.
Earlier Mr.Nawaz Sharif has given Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) a deadline till Monday for restoration of the judges and asked PPP to tell him by tonight whether it intends to restore judges the day after tomorrow. Addressing a press conference after a meeting with PPP delegation here, Nawaz Sharif said that he told the delegation that judges should be restored by Monday. Mr. Zardari has reported to said that the agreement between the partners on the judges issue is not a holy document, as there could be some amendment in it. He told that any dead line would not be acceptable for him as he does’nt believe in a countdown. Pakistan People’s Party on Saturday announced the name of its Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari as the candidate to vie for the post of Pakistan’s president. Central leader of PPP, Senator Raza Rabbani made the announcement at press briefing held here at Zardari House. "Asif (Ali) Zardari has accepted to contest the election for the office of president of Pakistan after the party unanimously drafted him to do so," Mian Raza Rabbani told the media reporter.
Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif on Saturday said he was ready to accept the PPP co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari as president if he does away with powers to dissolve parliament. Former president Pervez Musharraf had strengthened his powers through a 17th constitutional amendment, which gave the president the power to dismiss the government and dissolve the parliament.
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