Amnesty ruling pressures Zardari
China Daily | Updated: 2009-12-18 07:54
In this photo made available by Pakistan's Press Information Department, President Asif Ali Zardari, left, meets Army chief Gen. Parvez Kayani in Islamabad on Wednesday. AP |
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's president faced fresh calls to step down yesterday after the Supreme Court struck down an amnesty that had protected the increasingly unpopular leader and several of his political allies from corruption charges.
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