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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/gilani-tries-to-save-government.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani is trying to save his government from collapsing" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/min-gilani-tries-to-save-government.jpg" alt="Prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani is trying to save his government from collapsing"/></a></p>
<p>Pakistan&#8217;s prime minister is trying to keep his government from collapsing after a key party said it was quitting the ruling coalition, leaving the government short of majority support in parliament.</p>
<p>The Muttahida Qaumi Movement, the second largest party in the ruling coalition, said it would join the opposition because of fuel price hikes, inflation and what it said was a general poor performance by the ruling Pakistan People&#8217;s Party.</p>
<p>The defection deprives prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani&#8217;s government of the 172 seats needed for a majority in the 342-member parliament.</p>
<p>That means the fractured opposition parties &#8211; if they can work together &#8211; could raise a no-confidence vote in Gilani, which if passed by a majority of lawmakers would remove the prime minister from office and possibly trigger early elections.</p>
<p>The political crisis is almost certain to distract the government at a time when the US is pushing Islamabad to do more to help turn around the war in neighbouring Afghanistan, although security is largely the purview of Pakistan&#8217;s powerful military.</p>
<p>It also all-but guarantees lawmakers will make no progress soon on solving the economic problems that have frustrated ordinary Pakistanis and forced the country to rely on 11 billion US dollars (£7 billion) in loans from the International Monetary Fund.</p>
<p>With his job on the line, Gilani was scrambling to secure the support of opposition groups to avoid a no-confidence vote. He met with representatives of the biggest opposition party, the Pakistan Muslim League-N, as well the second largest opposition group, the Pakistan Muslim League-Q.</p>
<p>But it was unclear whether he had made any headway. One opposition leader said his party had nothing against the prime minister, but stressed that it could only support Gilani&#8217;s government if it improved its performance.</p>
<p>&#8220;Today we gave support with a condition, and that condition is the real issues of the people are addressed,&#8221; said Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain of the PML-Q.</p>
<p>PML-N leader Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan avoided directly addressing whether his faction would support a no-confidence vote.</p>
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