US media predicts collapse of Pak govt
US Assistant Secretary of State Richard Boucher has advised Pakistani leaders to avoid a confrontation with President Pervez Musharraf, the US media reported on Sunday.
Boucher met PPP leader Asif Ali Zardari and former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in London earlier on Sunday, but a US Embassy official in Islamabad said they did not discuss the judicial crisis.
The prestigious Wall Street Journal, however, quoted a senior PPP official as saying that the US official had urged the two leaders “not to take measures that could push the government into direct confrontation with Mr Musharraf”.
The report also quoted federal Education Minister Ahsan Iqbal as saying that the PML-N “will have no justification to remain in the government if the judges were not reinstated”.
Another report, distributed by a news agency, said that the failure of the talks over the judicial dispute in London had raised the “prospect that the three-month-old democratic government will collapse in disarray”.
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