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Feb. 26, 2008 / 12:05 PM

Nawaz Sharif to contest by-elections

Pakistan's former prime minister Nawaz Sharif enters to a car among his supporters during a visit to the shrine of Muslim saint Data Ganj Bukhsh in Lahore, Pakistan on February 16, 2008. Pakistan has deployed nearly 81,000 soldiers through the region with orders to shoot anyone suspected of committing violence on election day. (UPI Photo/Hossein Fatemi)

Pakistan's former prime minister Nawaz Sharif enters to a car among his supporters during a visit to the shrine of Muslim saint Data Ganj Bukhsh in Lahore, Pakistan on February 16, 2008. Pakistan has deployed nearly 81,000 soldiers through the region with orders to shoot anyone suspected of committing violence on election day. (UPI Photo/Hossein Fatemi) | License Photo

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Feb. 26 (UPI) -- Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said he plans to run in the by-elections that would fill vacant Parliament seats from the general elections.

Sharif couldn't run in the Feb. 19 elections in Pakistan due to corruption and tax evasion charges.

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Pakistan plans to have by-elections soon to fill unseated positions from the general election, CNN said Tuesday.

The CNN report says Sharif may seek the prime minister's office, though Pakistani law forbids him from doing so because he held the position for two non-consecutive terms prior to the 1999 coup that put Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf in power.

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