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ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s Supreme Court said Tuesday that it will soon begin examining a recently expired graft amnesty covering President Asif Ali Zardari and key allies. The decision launches a process that could eventually unseat the U.S-allied leader just as the Obama administration needs stability in Islamabad to help crack down on the Taliban.
Highlighting the dangers, a suicide bomber killed an anti- Taliban lawmaker, provincial assembly member Shamsher Khan, in the northwestern Swat Valley — the latest in a series of bombings as the army presses offensives into militant strongholds close to the Afghan border.
