Nawaz Sharif was dismissed on Friday by the Supreme Court for corruption. Proof of the democratic vivacity for some, of the control of the army on the country for the others. Since the independence of Pakistan in 1947, not a single prime minister has been able to reach the end of his five-year term.
The shock wave of the Panama Papers will eventually bring down the "Lion of the Punjab". It was unanimously that the five judges of the Supreme Court of Pakistan ended this Friday fifteen months of national psychodrama by demanding the dismissal of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
Bundles of secret documents from a Panamanian cabinet published in 2016 by the Consortium of Investigative Journalists revealed that three of the children of the state's strongest man had owned since the 1970s via screen companies , Of several luxurious apartments in London. Since then, the affair has been inflaming newscasts and the country of 200 million inhabitants held its breath. Investigators eventually proved a "large disparity" between the income and the lifestyle of the Nawaz Sharif family.
This is the third time that Nawaz Sharif, who has dominated the political landscape of the country for more than thirty years, is prevented from completing his mandate. In 1993, he had to resign after (already) accusations of corruption. In 1999, he was overthrown by a military coup and exiled to Saudi Arabia. He returned to power in 2013 after one of his successors, Youssouf Raza Gilani, was also pushed out by the Supreme Court for obstructing a corruption investigation.
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