Qazi Hussain Ahmad, chief of the Pakistani fundamentalist party Jamaat-e-Islami, addresses lawyers in Karachi on August 30, 2008. The former prime minister Nawaz Sharif has withdrawn his party’s support from the coalition over the issue of the reinstatement of sacked judges, saying the ruling Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) was dragging its feet. Since Sharif’s party quit Pakistan’s four-party coalition the government has reappointed 12 judges sacked by former President Pervez Musharraf but lawyers’ groups have dismissed the gesture as a political stunt. By Asif Hassan/AFP/Getty.
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