PAKISTAN'S coalition Government has opened talks with a Muslim cleric whose calls for the administration to resign have inspired thousands of protesters camped near parliament.
A spokesman for the cleric, Muhammad Tahirul Qadri, said a delegation was holding discussions in a bid to defuse a political crisis that erupted after he led a protest in the capital on Monday.
Mr Qadri is calling for the immediate resignation of the government and the installation of a caretaker administration in the run-up to elections due in the next few months.
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