ISLAMABAD - Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari threw his weight on Monday behind beleaguered Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani against any attempts to destabilise his government after a key partner quit the ruling coalition.
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ISLAMABAD - Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari threw his weight on Monday behind beleaguered Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani against any attempts to destabilise his government after a key partner quit the ruling coalition.
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ISLAMABAD - Pakistan’s beleaguered Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani won tentative support at crisis talks with political opponents on Monday, raising hopes that his government can stave off imminent collapse.
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ISLAMABAD - Pakistani Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani scrambled to save his ruling coalition on Monday after a key partner withdrew, plunging a country vital to U.S. efforts to pacify Afghanistan into a political crisis.
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The second largest party in Pakistan’s coalition said on Sunday it would go into opposition, depriving the government, a strategic US ally, of its majority in the National Assembly.
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The second largest party in Pakistan's coalition said on Sunday it would go into opposition, depriving the government, a strategic US ally, of its majority and raising the prospect of an early election.
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ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s government scrambled on Monday to survive after losing its majority, tipping the nuclear-armed state into a political crisis threatening to destabilise the US ally in the war on Al-Qaeda.
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Pakistan’s government lost its parliamentary majority on Jan. 2 after a key coalition partner, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), announced it would go into opposition, plunging the country vital for US efforts to pacify Afghanistan into a deep political crisis.
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Pakistani Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani held talks with opposition leaders on Monday in a bid to head off a possible vote of no confidence after a key partner quit the governing coalition.
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Pakistani PM Yusuf Raza Gilani is due to meet a leader of the main opposition party in a bid to head off a possible vote of no confidence against him.
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KARACHI - The second largest party in Pakistan’s coalition said on Sunday it would go into opposition, depriving the government, a strategic US ally, of its majority and raising the prospect of an early election.
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