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Sharif's supporters launch legal challenge

September 11, 2007 18:15 IST

Hamza Sharif, nephew of former Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif, talks to the media after filing an appeal against the ex-PM's deportation in the Supreme Court in Islamabad on Tuesday.

 Sharif's family moves Supreme Court

Sharif has been deported to Saudi Arabia.

The appeal by Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz party sets up a fresh confrontation between the court and President Pervez Musharraf, who tried and failed to sack the court's chief justice earlier this year.

Photograph: Getty Images

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