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Pakistan Supreme Court lifts election ban on opposition leader Sharif

By Bernard Hibbitts (editor) and University of Pittsburgh School of Law students.

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[JURIST] The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Tuesday lifted a ban preventing opposition politician and former prime minister Nawaz Sharif from participating in politics. The Supreme Court had barred Sharif from holding elected office in Pakistan because of an earlier criminal conviction for "hijacking." Sharif was convicted of the offense for attempting to divert a plane carrying Army commander Pervez Musharraf during a 1999 coup against Sharif that ultimately succeeded. The ruling was suspended in March after the government of Sharif's political rival and current Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari petitioned the court to review the decision. Earlier this year, Sharif and his Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) led a protest march against Zardari and his Pakistan People's Party (PPP) as part of the Pakistan lawyers' movement. In March, Zardari formed a parliamentary committee to review key terms of the Pakistani Constitution, and reinstated Supreme Court chief justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry, who was ousted in 2007 after then-president Musharraf declared a state of emergency rule.

Full post as published by JURIST - The Paper Chase on May 26, 2009 (boomark / email).