Anti-Musharraf parties agree to form new Pakistan government, restore judges

Pakistan's election winners set a collision course with President Pervez Musharraf on Sunday, agreeing to form a coalition government and promising that parliament would restore senior judges fired last year by the U.S.-backed leader in a bid to secure his continued rule.

In the capital, Islamabad, police fired tear gas at protesters at the residence of the Supreme Court chief suspended by Musharraf one year earlier, a move that triggered the political turbulence still dogging Pakistan's return to democracy.

Asif Ali Zardari, the widower of slain opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, and Nawaz Sharif, whose government was ousted in Musharraf's 1999 military …