Pakistan PM defends himself on contempt charges

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AFP: Pakistan Takes PM to Court

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The order for Mr. Ashraf’s arrest – alongside the arrests of 15 other people – comes after a longstanding court case in which he has been accused of receiving kickbacks in a rental power project and buying foreign property with illegal money during his tenure as minister for water and power. The news also comes just months before the country is set to hold elections, and a day after Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri, a Canadian-Pakistani cleric, led tens of thousands of organized protesters to the capital to demand “electoral reform” and an end to corruption, violence, and power outages.

Mr. Qadri’s demand that the Pakistani Army be involved in elections, and the declaration of the arrest order in the middle of a speech in front of the Pakistani Parliament, has sparked rumors of a conspiracy against the country’s fledgling democracy.

https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-South-Central/2013/0115/Pakistan-s-court-order-to-arrest-the-prime-minister-unsettles-nation-video