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Pakistan: Time for Britain and US to take Nawaz Sharif more seriously

telegraph.co.uk

Mar. 17, 2009

When Pakistan president Asif Zardari finally caved in to opposition demands to reinstate Mohammad Iftikhar Chaudhry the popular chief justice ousted by General Musharraf he was not the only senior figure to have been wrongfooted.

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