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Pakistan coalition in major split

Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has pulled his PML-N party - the country's second biggest - out of the multi-party governing coalition. He has been in dispute with the country's biggest party, the PPP, on the reinstatement of judges sacked by former President Pervez Musharraf. The two sides also disagree over who should be the next president. The move throws Pakistan into further turmoil at a time of economic gloom and growing threats...

[as predicted: we're going to miss Musharraf]

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Pakistan turmoil deepens

Islamabad - Pakistan's political turmoil deepened on Tuesday after the two main parties in the ruling coalition split, weakening the fragile government just a week after president Pervez Musharraf resigned. The world's only nuclear-armed Islamic nation, already facing a fresh campaign of bombings by a resurgent militant movement, now faces the prospect of a bitter political battle over the choice of Musharraf's successor.

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