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Article: Leaders wobble.(items include Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif of Pakistan being charged with contempt of court in an ongoing argument with the country's judiciary)(Politics This Week)(Brief Article)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- November 22, 1997
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Nawaz Sharif, the prime minister of Pakistan, was charged with contempt of court as his row with the judiciary escalated. The army's chief of staff, General Jehangir Karamat, cut short an overseas visit and returned to Islamabad.
The prime minister of India, Inder Gujral, faced a revolt by his main coalition ally, the Congress party, over a report said to implicate a regional party in the 1991 assassination of the then prime minister, Rajiv Gandhi.
A state legislator, producing a film at a studio in Hyderabad in southern India, was ...