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India-Pakistan
Sharifs to be arrested on return?
2007-08-25
A high-level meeting chaired by President General Pervez Musharraf at his camp office in Rawalpindi on Friday decided that former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and his brother Shahbaz Sharif, would be arrested if they returned to Pakistan, ARY television reported.

Quoting its sources, the channel said that the president’s constitutional experts and legal adviser told him the judiciary had become “very aggressive” and expressed their reservations over the judicial activism and the cases coming before the Supreme Court in the future. According to the channel, the meeting decided that the Sharif brothers would be arrested on their return and their pardoned sentences would be revived.

Agencies and Staff Report add: The meeting attended by Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz, PML President Chaudhry Shujaat, Attorney General Malik Qayyum, PMÂ’s Adviser Sharifuddin Pirzada, Information Minister Muhammad Ali Durrani and some close presidential aides also discussed the current political situation and expressed support to the proposals on political reconciliation between President Musharraf and the opposition parties.
Posted by:Fred

#1  So, Chaudry was reinstated and in turn rules that the Sharif brothers can return.

Islamicists maneuvering to take open power. Perv not quite ready to go quietly. All maneuvers done under a threadbare cover of law.

A whole lot rides on the outcome of this, I think.
Posted by: lotp   2007-08-25 06:31  

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