Pakistan PM indicted for contempt of court

February 13, 2012 10:33

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Pakistan Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani is again in the news, and again not for the right reasons.

On Monday morning, he was indicted by Pakistan's Supreme Court for contempt of court.

If convicted, Gilani may lose his job, plunging Pakistan into fresh political turmoil over his refusal to reopen graft cases against the President.

Gilani, 59, could be imprisoned for six months and faces possible removal from office, after being disqualified from holding public office for five years.

Dealing a major blow to Gilani, Pakistan's apex court headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry on Friday had rejected his appeal against framing of contempt charges over his failure to act on its repeated orders to revive cases of alleged money laundering against President Asif Ali Zardari in Switzerland.

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