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| Threat of coup recedes as Pakistani PM escapes arrest |
| 2013-01-17 |
| The threat of a ‘soft coup’ against Pakistan’s government receded today as the country’s supreme court was told its order to arrest the prime minister could not be carried out. Raja Pervez Ashraf was supposed to be arrested and brought before the country’s most senior judges today on graft charges. Instead the head of an anti-corruption body told the supreme court there wasn’t enough evidence against him. The timing of Tuesday’s arrest warrant, which coincided with a mass protest outside parliament, led by Tahir-ul Qadri , a firebrand cleric with close links to the military, fuelled suspicions of a coordinated plot to bundle the government out of office before it could complete a full term. |
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