Former PM Now Leads Pakistan Opposition

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LAHORE — In his two turns as prime minister in the 1990s, Nawaz Sharif tried to endear himself to Pakistan's people with populist policies and did little to please the United States and other foreign allies. He might yet get the chance to repeat that role.

Last week's assassination of his erstwhile rival, Benazir Bhutto, has left Sharif, who cultivated ties with the Taliban and tested nuclear weapons while in office, as the standard-bearer of the opposition to President Pervez Musharraf.

"He is the only credible national leader left on the scene," said Rasul Bakhsh Rais, a political scientist at Lahore University of Management Sciences.

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Nawaz Sharif

How long will Mr. Sharif last. Six months.....two months......twenty days???