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Pakistani court lifts ban on former prime minister Sharif
May 26, 2009, 10:46 GMT
Islamabad - Pakistan's Supreme Court on Tuesday lifted a ban on opposition leader and former prime minister Nawaz Sharif from contesting elections.
Justice Tasadaq Hussain, the head of five-member bench of the apex court, while reading out a short order said that the previous rulings disqualifying Nawaz Sharif and his brother Shahbaz Sharif from elections are 'set aside.'
A February 25 verdict by the Supreme Court barring the two brothers from contesting parliamentary elections and holding public office sparked protests in Punjab, the country's most populace province and a stronghold of Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz.
'Justice was bound to happen ... however, instead of being triumphant we are grateful to God,' Nawaz Sharif told reporters at his residence in Lahore, the capital of Punjab.
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