//php if(!empty($last_str)){if(!preg_match('~[0-9]+~', $first_str)){echo $title;}else{echo $last_str; }}else{echo $title;}?>503 : The Disqualification of Nawaz Sharif: Implications for Democracy in Pakistan
Faiza Saleem
2 August 2017
Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has been disqualified by the country's Supreme Court. The democratic system will continue, with his younger brother Shahbaz Sharif set to be elected a prime minister in due course. Yet, the ruling may weaken the consolidation of democracy in Pakistan by upending elected institutions and encouraging the flow of power to unelected ones.