Pakistan's Sharif to Return Home Sept 10

The Washington Post ^ | August 30, 2007 | AP

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LONDON -- Former Pakistani leader Nawaz Sharif said Thursday he would return home from exile on Sept. 10 to challenge President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's plans to extend his rule.

Sharif told reporters in London that he would return to Islamabad shortly before the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan and return to his power base in the country's east.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nawaz_Sharif

He is best known internationally for ordering his country’s 1998 nuclear tests in response to India’s nuclear tests, and the abrupt end of his final term in a dramatic coup by General Pervez Musharraf.

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Former Pakistani leader Nawaz Sharif said Thursday he would return home from exile on Sept. 10 to challenge President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's plans to extend his rule.

I'll be very surprised if he isn't imprisoned soon thereafter.

[gandalftb]

Loose talk, the Sharif brothers are famous for it.