Pakistan’s Supreme Court has scrapped lifetime bans on people with criminal convictions from contesting elections, opening the way for Nawaz Sharif to run for prime minister for a fourth time in elections due next month.
Sharif, 74, returned from self-imposed exile in the UK in October. He was removed as prime minister by the Supreme Court in 2017 over “dishonest practices” following revelations of unaccounted family wealth.
The ruling late on Monday came amid a bitter power struggle between Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz party and the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party of his arch-rival, the former prime minister and cricket star Imran Khan.
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