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Pakistan parties divided over Afghan attacks

Pakistan's major political alliance is likely to split, with its prime partner pushing an independent line over the country's support to the United States war on Afghanistan, reports Online news agency.

Pakistan People's Party (PPP) vice chairman Amin Fahim said his party would walk out of the Alliance for Restoration of Democracy (ARD) expressing reservations over the opposition by some parties to the war against terrorism.

The PPP and former prime minister Nawaz Sharif's faction of the Pakistan Muslim League (PML) are the main partners of the ARD, a grouping of parties created after the 1999 military coup that brought to power President Gen Pervez Musharraf to demand restoration of democracy.

"The ARD and we have different views on Afghanistan situation. While we support the war against terrorism, most of them (in ARD) think otherwise," Fahim told Online.

"They have always tried to stop us because we are liberals and don't support terrorism. I don't think this marriage will continue for long."

Fahim denied there was any 'deal' between the PPP and the Musharraf regime.

"We want the regime to make way for a democratically elected civilian government. If they are willing to talk on the issue, we are ready to talk. There is no other matter for us to negotiate."

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