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PML-N officials said he was holding talks with some independent MPs to work out cabinet positions.

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It vowed to trim their ranks and make them work for the cabinet, rather than the other way round.

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The situation has become so absurd that Mr Yushchenko is trying to block the work of the cabinet, half of which he chose.

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