(Xinhua)
Updated: 2007-11-27 14:13

 

Pakistan's former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif (C) speaks during a news conference at his residence in Lahore November 26, 2007. [Xinhua]

Nawaz Sharif, twice elected prime minister of Pakistan, was jailed when General Pervez Musharraf staged a bloodless coup and seized power in 1999. He was tried by Anti-Terrorism Courts and sentenced to life imprisonment for hijacking. The authorities later agreed to commute his life sentence to exile for 10 years.

Musharraf, also President of Pakistan, proclaimed a state of emergency in the country and issued a provisional constitutional order, suspending the constitution and sacking the then-Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry and some other judges.

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