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...long-awaited ruling, Pakistan's Supreme Court declared on Wednesday that neither former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif nor his brother Shahbaz Sharif, the Chief Minister of Punjab, can stand for elections. The siblings are the leaders of the country's second largest party, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N). As a result, Nawaz Sharif's ambition of returning to the position of Prime Minister for a historic third time in a future election has been thwarted. More immediately, Shahbaz Sharif has been dislodged from his position as Chief Minister of Punjab, the elected head of the provincial government...
...with the Supreme Court's decision, but we commiserate," says Farahnaz Ispahani, a presidential spokeswoman. "This is not what we sought from our policy of reconciliation." The charges against the Sharifs, she adds, were not introduced by the present government but by former President Pervez Musharraf, after he toppled Nawaz Sharif in a bloodless coup in 1999. (One of the charges that led to Sharif's disqualification was his alleged role in the 1999 hijacking of a plane bearing Musharraf, then head of the army and increasingly a rival for power.) But the Sharifs and their lawyers allege that Zardari...
...digs his claws into Judaism and Islam. An interview with Rabbi Dovid Weiss, an anti-Zionist who supports the Iranian president’s recent denial of the Holocaust, reveals the darkest entrails of religious hypocrisy. While roaming the underground tunnels of Amsterdam, Maher interviews Muslim British rapper Aki Nawaz of the band Propagandhi, whose controversial lyrics glorify terrorism. Incidentally, Nawaz, whose livelihood literally depends on freedom of speech, has no qualms about the fatwa placed on Salman Rushdie for his book “The Satanic Verses,” which incensed Muslim leaders in the late...
...Over the past six months, the government's focus has been elsewhere - on internal political wrangling and the pressures of an economy on the verge of meltdown. It has initiated no national discussion in parliament on the issue, nor has it moved to draw in former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, whose rising popularity and clout among conservative elements could prove a decisive factor. Laments Abbas: "The mistake they are making is the same as General Musharraf made by not bringing on political forces [or] generating [supportive] public opinion, and [by] resorting to unilateral actions...
...million Afghan refugees took shelter in Pakistan's cities and in makeshift camps. But after the Soviets withdrew in 1989, the U.S. lost interest in the region. Afghanistan's war of liberation turned into a civil war, and the Pakistani government--led by Bhutto and her political rival Nawaz Sharif, who alternated in power--backed the Taliban, student warriors committed to a fundamentalist Islamic state...