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Nawaz Sharif, Pakistan's comeback king
ISLAMABAD:[AFP] Re-emerging as a key player in Pakistan's turbulent politics, former premier Nawaz Sharif must be hoping that his latest attempt to return from exile will not be as short-lived as the last one.
He landed in September with the ambition of leading a triumphal campaign to oust Pervez Musharraf, who toppled him from power in a coup in 1999.
But that campaign lasted all of a few hours.
Musharraf clamped down and Sharif found himself on a plane back to Saudi Arabia where he has lived in exile for the past seven years.
On Sunday he was due to return a second time to the eastern city of Lahore -- this time apparently with the consent of the government.
Sharif, 57, was overthrown by Musharraf, who was his army chief, in October 1999 after he had tried to sack the general while he flew back from abroad.
He was banished the following year after being convicted of corruption and hijacking.
And yet, after his own two terms in office during the 1990s were marred by corruption claims, the portly Sharif has rebuilt his political credibility on the back of his implacable opposition to Musharraf.
An irony is that he entered politics under the wing of the army.
The scion of a wealthy dynasty with interests in steel, sugar and paper, Sharif was handpicked by military dictator Ziaul Haq in 1981 to become one of the youngest ever finance ministers for Punjab province.
Sharif won elections for prime minister after Bhutto's first term in office in 1990 but after three years was sacked on corruption charges by then president Ghulam Ishaq Khan.
It was a turning point in Sharif's political career as he launched a scathing attack on Khan, his former mentor and a top representative of the military-led establishment.
Sharif returned to power in 1996 after the dismissal of Bhutto's second government on corruption charges.
A year later he won a massive two-thirds majority in elections, emboldening him to take on the army.
Sharif also made other moves to become Pakistan's most powerful premier in history, such as reversing a constitutional amendment to remove the president's powers to dismiss the prime minister.
But he then had a spectacular falling-out with the chief justice, whom he believed to be putting curbs on his ambitions.
More worryingly for Pakistan's Western allies, he also sought to introduce Islamic Sharia law, with himself as the "commander of the faithful."
In 1998 Sharif appointed Musharraf as chief of army staff, but relations between the two soured over a skirmish with nuclear-armed rival India in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir.
Suspecting that Musharraf was planning his overthrow, Sharif tried to sack him while the army leader was in mid-air from Sri Lanka.
The army moved quickly, however, ending Sharif's rule in a bloodless coup, bringing the general safely back to Pakistan and installing him as the chief executive.
When Musharraf then had Sharif and his brother Shahbaz tried on charges of hijacking, terrorism and attempted murder, many thought it marked the end of Sharif's political ambitions.
Shahbaz and six co-defendants were acquitted in April 2000 while Nawaz was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment.
In December 2000 however Sharif and 19 members of his extended family left Pakistan quietly for Saudi Arabia, with Musharraf announcing at the time that they would stay out of the country for 10 years. - [/b]AFP