Pakistan’s Supreme Court has quashed a nine-year-old criminal conviction for hijacking against the former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. The ruling clears the way for the leader of the country’s biggest opposition party to hold public office again.
Mr Sharif was charged and convicted after he ordered the diversion of a plane carrying Pervez Musharraf, the then chief of the Army, to Pakistan from Sri Lanka on October 12, 1999. Mr Sharif was ousted by Mr Musharraf in a military coup on the same day.
The court ruled that there was insufficient evidence to support the conviction.
After the coup, Mr Musharraf went on to rule Pakistan until last August, when he resigned as President under the threat of impeachment.
Friday, July 17, 2009
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