The deposed judges, sacked under President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf when he imposed emergency rule within the country on 3 November 2007, are to be reinstated within 30 days of the new coalition government.
As the deadlock expired, Nawaz Sharif met with Asif Ali Zardari in London on 11 May 2008 in the final set of discussions on how to resolve the deadlock, with no effective decision made, upon his return to Islamabad, Mr. Sharif announced that his federal ministers would leave the federal government tomorrow {13 May 2008} and effectively left the coalition government.
The political acumen of the twice Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif could not peep deep inside the shrewd Zardari while signing the declaration wherein: firstly as per clause 2, the judges were to be restored through a parliamentary resolution.
2 – This has been decided in today's summit between the PPP and the PML (N) that the deposed judges would be restored, on the position as they were on 2 November 2007, within 30 days of the formation of the federal government through a parliamentary resolution.
Before the assassination of Ms Bhutto, she and Nawaz Sharif were discussing a coalition if they won the elections that were held supposed to be in on 8 January but no official agreement was reached.