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...what was purportedly her suicide note, she had said she could no longer withstand the senior nuns' harassment. Her father, a cook in the local bishop's house, charged that sexual exploitation had led his daughter to take her life. The convent has denied the allegations, though a court investigation is still ongoing...
...situation, to be widely considered a nation's most popular politician yet simultaneously barred from ever holding public office again. But that's the situation facing Pakistani opposition leader and long-time political mainstay Nawaz Sharif after a Feb. 25 decision by Pakistan's Supreme Court. The ruling declared both Sharif and his brother, Shahbaz, ineligible to hold office, ostensibly because of Sharif's criminal convictions after he was tossed from office in a 1999 coup by Gen. Pervez Musharraf...
Sharif says he doesn't buy the explanation and dubbed the court's decision a "nefarious act" by the current Pakistani president - Asif Ali Zardari - designed to quash Sharif's electoral threat. He has called for an anti-government rally next month, but his supporters aren't waiting. Widespread and violent protests broke out after the court's decision, adding considerable tension to a country already near its breaking point. (See pictures of Pakistan's vulnerable North-West Frontier Province...
...banned on Feb. 25 from contesting office on the basis of his convictions in the air piracy case. Sharif accuses Zardari of orchestrating the ruling from the Supreme Court, which still lacks the justices Musharraf sacked...
...unfortunate the ferocity of the reaction and the personalized attack on the president has soured the atmosphere." - Government spokesman in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling, New York Times...