Pakistan: Pakistan Muslim League Won’t Move Against PM

Pakistan: pakistan muslim league won't move against pm 1
Yousuf raza gilani, prime minister of pakistan

The chairman of the main opposition party in Pakistan, Raja Zafar-ul-Haq, or the Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N), has indicated that his party will not move against the Prime Minister, Yuzuf Raza Gilani, despite the coalition coming apart this weekend, in order to preserve stability in the country.

Pakistan’s political system was shaken over the weekend when the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) party left the ruling coalition, ending the majority, because of concerns about fuel prices in the country.

The move prompted domestic and international fear over the stability of Government in Pakistan, however, according to a Reuters report, the main opposition party, PML-N said removing the PM would “damage the whole country”.


In This Story: Pakistan

Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia. It has a population exceeding 212.2 million, including the world’s second-largest Muslim population. It has an area of 881,913 square kilometres (340,509 square miles).

Pakistan has a 1,046-kilometre (650-mile) coastline along the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by India to the east, Afghanistan to the west, Iran to the southwest, and China to the northeast. It is separated narrowly from Tajikistan by Afghanistan’s Wakhan Corridor in the northwest, and also shares a maritime border with Oman.

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