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Thursday - August 23, 2007

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Thu, 08/23/2007 - 15:00

29:00 minutes (26.55 MB)

Headlines (5:32)
PAKISTAN'S FORMER PRIME MINISTER CAN RETURN

The exiled former prime minister of Pakistan has been given permission to return home. Pakistan's Supreme Court ruled today that Nawaz Sharif can once again run for office. Sharif left Pakistan in 1999 when current president General Pervez Musharraf seized power in a military coup.

RIFT IN INDIA'S RULING COALITION

In other news, partisan disagreements over the US-India nuclear deal have sparked a political showdown in India's Congress. Bismillah Geelani reports from New Delhi.