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Islamabad: A day after Pervez Musharraf quit as president, differences over the judiciary resurfaced between the two major parties of Pakistan's ruling coalition and a suicide bomber killed 23 people at a hospital in northwest Pakistan, highlighting the challenges facing the government.
The Pakistan People's Party (PPP), which leads the coalition government, and the Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N), could not agree on a method for reinstating the dozens of judges Musharraf sacked last November under emergency rule. The sources said PPP leader Asif Ali Zardari wanted the reinstatement through an amendment to the constitution while PML-N chief and former prime minister Nawaz Sharif insisted on an executive order.
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Information Minister Sherry Rehman told reporters after the meeting that Awami National Party (ANP) and Jamiat Ulema Islam (JUI), two other coalition parties, had sought time to go through the relevant documents as they had not been part of the earlier negotiations on the issue.
JUI leader Maulana Fazlur Rehman said his party and the ANP had been given the "authority to play our role in finding an agreed solution to the issue in the next 72 hours." "We have accepted the responsibility. We will work to achieve the objective and will also be holding talks with Zardari and Nawaz Sharif," Rehman said.
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