A COUPLE of days before Nawaz Sharif was forced to step down as prime minister of Pakistan, his most vehement critic, Imran Khan, a former cricket star turned politician, asserted to The Economist that Mr Sharif had spent his life rigging the system. Hell, Mr Khan complained, when they used to play cricket together as young men in Lahore, at the Gymkhana Club, Mr Sharif somehow made sure that the umpire cried foul any time he appeared to have been bowled out.
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