By IRNA
Islamabad : Senior leaders of Pakistan’s ruling coalition are holding the last round of talks in Dubai on Thursday to remove differences over the fate of deposed judges to save the coalition.
Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and the Peoples Party leader Asif Ali Zardari held two rounds of talks on Wednesday but could not reach any agreement, a member of Sharif’s PML said.
Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, senior minister in the cabinet and member of the negotiation team, said that the 7-hour talks could not produce results and more talks are being held today to resolve the issue.
“We are trying to resolve the issue,” PML-N Chief Nawaz Sharif told Pakistani TV channels over phone from Dubai on Thursday.
“We will try till the end to restore the judges,” Sharif said.
President Pervez Musharraf deposed the Chief Justice and around 60 judges when he imposed emergency rule on November 3rd.
Sharif and Zardari had announced on March 30th to restore the judges within a month through a parliamentary resolution.
But Zardari, who succeeded his late wife Benazir Bhutto as head of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), is now reluctant to restore the judges under his previous commitment, lawyers say.
The 30-day deadline for the restoration of judges expired and Sharif had to dash to Dubai to meet Zardari to find out solution to the issue.
Zardari went to Dubai last week to meet his daughters. His departure created doubts over his commitment to restore the judges.
PML-N leaders have indicated they will quit the cabinet if they failed to restore the judges.
It is feared that cracks in the coalition would lead to political instability in months after the February 18 elections.