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Coalition partners to meet today without Nawaz

ISLAMABAD: The heads of the ruling coalition, sans PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif, are scheduled to meet today (Wednesday) to remove their differences and thrash out a strategy to fight terrorism. Sources within the government said that the meeting seeks to remove differences that have arisen within the coalition, especially those concerning the paramilitary operation the PPP-led government launched in the Tribal Areas. “We will demand the government withdraw from the so-called war on terror,” JUI-F Secretary General Ghafoor Haideri told Daily Times. PML-N spokesman Siddiqul Farooq said the party would press the government for the impeachment of President Pervez Musharraf. ANP Information Secretary Zahid Khan said his party would give input on how to maintain law and order. Sources said that Gilani and Zardari would also attempt to convince the PML-N to rejoin the federal cabinet and that the formula for distribution of slots of chairpersons of standing committees would be finalised at the meeting. muhammad bilal

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