Pakistan court rules former PM can return from exile

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Thu Aug-23-07 08:55 AM
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Pakistan court rules former PM can return from exile

Source: The Guardian

Pakistan's chief justice, who survived a botched attempt by President Pervez Musharraf to fire him, has ruled that one of the president's key political rivals can return from a seven-year exile.

In an extraordinary twist that is likely to enrage the president, Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry declared that the former prime minister Nawaz Sharif had an "inalienable" right to enter his native country.

Mr Sharif, who was ousted from power in 1999 by Gen Musharraf in a bloodless coup, is now set to contest upcoming parliamentary elections.

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Gen Musharraf had claimed he released Mr Sharif from jail in 2000 on condition he would not return to Pakistan for 10 years, but Mr Sharif's lawyers argued that the agreement was not legitimate.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/pakistan/Story/0,,2154893,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=networkfront

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Thu Aug-23-07 03:36 PM
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1. End the dictatorship in Pakistan!

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