Ruling coalition on the rocks

NEW YORK - Pakistan Muslim League-N leader Nawaz Sharif has threatened to pull his party out of the governing coalition if it does not decide by Friday  (today) about the reinstatement of judges sacked by former president Pervez Musharraf, but said he will not bring about the collapse of the government.

In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Sharif said that the sacking of the judges last year had shaken the foundations of the country and it was necessary to restore them to their jobs.

“We will not try to bring the government down,” Sharif said in remarks published on Thursday. “But of course we then have no choice but to sit in the Opposition.”