What happens in Abu Dhabi, stays in Abu Dhabi
CHRIS YOUNG/AFP/Getty Images Pervez Musharraf may be considering some kind of power-sharing agreement with ex-PM Benazir Bhutto, but it looks like the embattled Pakistani leader isn’t about to let the upcoming elections become a free-for-all: Pakistan’s National Accountability Bureau Court has reopened three cases against exiled former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif [pictured at left], who ...
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Pervez Musharraf may be considering some kind of power-sharing agreement with ex-PM Benazir Bhutto, but it looks like the embattled Pakistani leader isn’t about to let the upcoming elections become a free-for-all:
Pakistan’s National Accountability Bureau Court has reopened three cases against exiled former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif [pictured at left], who wants to return to contest the national elections. […]
The cases were reopened after Pakistan’s Supreme Court this month started hearing an application by Sharif to return from exile to contest the national elections due in January. Sharif was convicted of corruption and treason after he was ousted in a coup eight years ago and sentenced to life imprisonment.
On Thursday, Sharif popped up to complain about the “secret” negotiations between Bhutto and Musharraf that took place last month in Abu Dhabi, saying, “The tradition of ‘begging power from the generals’ should end and the meeting between Bhutto and Musharraf should never have happened.”
Looks like somebody didn’t take too kindly to those remarks in Islamabad. Perhaps we can cross Sharif off the list of people who might succeed Musharraf.
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