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Pakistan Punishes Prime Ministers But Not Military Generals

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Pakistan has a horrendous history of mistreating its elected prime ministers. On July 28, the Pakistan Supreme Court disqualified sitting prime minister Nawaz Sharif under the “ sadiq and amin  “clause of the 1973 Constitution. The Court found the prime minister to be  dishonest and untrustworthy . Since August 1947, in seventy years of Pakistan’s existence, prime ministers have been overthrown in military coups, removed by high courts, murdered, and executed. Not a single prime minister has been able to complete the constitutional tenure. Read More