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Article: Vacancy expected: Pakistan. (Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- August 1, 1992
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IS NAWAZ SHARIF, prime minister of Pakistan since October 1990, about to lose his job? Not only is the opposition leader, Benazir Bhutto, threatening political upheavals but the army, too, is making life difficult.
Miss Bhutto's threat became clear on July 16th, when she said her Pakistan People's Party would take its 45 MPs out of parliament and resort to street agitation. She claims she can muster the resignations of about a third of parliament. If she can also rouse an extra-parliamentary rabble, Mr Sharif will be in trouble. By May some 14 MPs of his governing coalition, the Islamic Democratic Alliance, had withdrawn their support in parliament; so, in June, did ...