US AND NORTH KOREA-Another Door Opened

Benazir asked Sharif to lead the Pakistani delegation to the UN Assembly in a bid to emphasise that the country's external concerns (meaning its relations with India) were more important than internal differences. Sharif has refused the offer. The government has also offered that the controversial Eighth Amendment which allows the president to dissolve the assembly and dismiss the prime minister would be repealed a promise that Benazir had made before the elections. This too has been dismissed by "the opposition as a cosmetic gesture.