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Pakistan’s high court flexes political muscle

Actions pressure prime minister, top spy agency

By Declan Walsh

 |  New York Times  

  February 14, 2012

Pakistan’s highest court forcefully challenged the authority of the country’s civilian and military leaders Monday, with cases that saw the prime minister indicted on contempt charges and the main military intelligence agency forced to produce seven sickly detainees who had been missing for two years. The hearings underscored how the Supreme Court, headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, has emerged as a force to be reckoned with in Pakistan’s fluid power struggles.

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