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Former Pakistani PM disqualified for by-elections
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2008-06-23 21:56

ISLAMABAD  -- A full bench of Lahore High Court Monday disqualified former Pakistani Prime Minister and chief of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Nawaz Sharif from contesting by-elections, local TV channel DAWN NEWS reported.

The three-bench full court, however, has conditionally allowed President of PML-N and younger brother of Nawaz Sharif Mian Shahbaz Sharif to hold office of Chief Minister of Punjab province.

Sharif was barred from elections on pleas from rivals that he was convicted in 1999 of attempted kidnapping and tax evasion in the aftermath of the coup in which the then-army Chief Pervez Musharraf seized power.