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Pakistan's activist Supreme Court endangers a fragile democracy

  • Written by Adnan Rasool, Ph.D. Candidate/ Student Innovation Fellow, Georgia State University

Pakistanis head to the polls to elect their next prime minister in July. Until then, though, the Supreme Court seems to be in charge of the country.

In July 2017, revelations from the Panama Papers leak spurred Pakistan’s high court to rule that then-Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had lied to the public about his family finances. Sharif, who...

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