Supreme Court to charge Pakistani PM with contempt

[FarCenter]

Pakistan's Supreme Court vowed Thursday to charge the prime minister with contempt for his failure to reopen an old corruption case against the president, ramping up a destabilizing political crisis just as Washington seeks to rebuild a troubled anti-terror alliance with the country.

If convicted, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani could face six months in prison and the loss of his job.
The court ordered Gilani to appear before it on Feb. 13, when he will be charged.

The announcement was a major escalation in a case that has dogged the democratically elected government since 2009, when the Supreme Court ordered it write to Swiss authorities requesting they reopen a corruption case against President Asif Ali Zardari that dates to the late 1990s.

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