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Lahore: Pakistan’s former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, overthrown by President Pervez Musharraf in a coup, on Sunday nominated his brother Shahbaz Sharif to return to his old job as head of Punjab province.
The nomination is the latest product of an alliance between the Sharifs and Asif Ali Zardari, widower of assassinated former prime minister Benazir Bhutto and her successor as head of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP).
“With the permission of Mr Asif Ali Zardari, Shahbaz Sharif, will be the chief minister of Punjab,” Nawaz Sharif said at a news conference with the PPP leader in Lahore, the capital of Punjab, the most influential of Pakistan’s four province
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