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Article: Climbdown: Pakistan. (potential constitutional crisis arises when prime minister Nawaz Sharif denies the Supreme Court from adding five members; history of clashes between the court and prime minister)(Brief Article)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- November 8, 1997
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NAWAZ SHARIF, Pakistan's prime minister, knows that the verdict of the voters is not the only one that matters in his country. He was ousted by presidential decree in 1993, and his successor, Benazir Bhutto, suffered the same fate a year ago, paving the way to Mr Sharif's re-election shortly after. But, for now at least, Mr Sharif seems to see himself most threatened not by the country's president but by its judiciary. At any rate it is with the Supreme Court that the prime minister has locked horns. In doing so he has brought the government perilously close to a constitutional crisis, at a time when the country's economic problems are mounting.
The clash concerned ...