Gilani is a Goner

摘要

6 Pakistan In the latest move in an escalating proxy war between Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry and President Asif Ali Zardari, the court ousted Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani from the office he had held since 2008. It was a blow to Pakistan's civilian government, which still hopes to be the first in the country's history to complete a full five-year term. Chaudhry ruled that Gilani had ceased to be the nation's Premier on April 26, when he was convicted of contempt for refusing to comply with the court's order to reopen a dormant investigation into corruption charges against Zardari.