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10 MPs desert Benazir

Ten dissident MPs of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto8217;s Pakistan Peoples Party, including five serving ministers, joined the ruling Pakistan Muslim League

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Ten dissident MPs of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto8217;s Pakistan Peoples Party, including five serving ministers, joined the ruling Pakistan Muslim League PML-Q.

The development came amid speculation that the back-channel talks between President Pervez Musharraf and Bhutto failed to bring about political reconciliation.

The 10 members of the National Assembly, who broke away from PPP and supported the pro-Musharraf government after the 2002 general elections to help it secure simple majority, formally joined the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Q at a meeting attended by Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz in Islamabad on Friday. Five ministers were among the ten members who joined the pro-Musharraf PML-Q.

 

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