Italian Premier Romano Prodi Resigns
Pakistan Times Wire Service

ROME: Premier Romano Prodi resigned Wednesday after an embarrassing loss in the Senate on foreign policy, including Italy's military mission in Afghanistan.

Prodi aides said consultations will begin shortly among politicians, and they didn't rule out that President Giorgio Napolitano would ask Prodi to try to form a new government.

Napolitano's office said consultations to see who had the support to put together a government would begin Thursday. Napolitano asked the government to stay on in a caretaker role in the meantime, his office said.●