Going, going, gone (maybe)

by | Sep 10, 2007


So Nawaz Sharif is being deported… He was taken from the airport by helicopter and, for a time, it looked like he would be arrested and kept in Pakistan. But now the helicopter has made the return journey and Nawaz is said to be back on a plane, ready to leave for Jeddah.

The country is reported to be mostly quiet. As yet, there’s none of the outpouring of protest that Sharif was hoping for.

Update – Yes he’s gone. Now the action moves to the Supreme Court…

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  • David Steven is a senior fellow at the UN Foundation and at New York University, where he founded the Global Partnership to End Violence against Children and the Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies, a multi-stakeholder partnership to deliver the SDG targets for preventing all forms of violence, strengthening governance, and promoting justice and inclusion. He was lead author for the ministerial Task Force on Justice for All and senior external adviser for the UN-World Bank flagship study on prevention, Pathways for Peace. He is a former senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and co-author of The Risk Pivot: Great Powers, International Security, and the Energy Revolution (Brookings Institution Press, 2014). In 2001, he helped develop and launch the UK’s network of climate diplomats. David lives in and works from Pisa, Italy.

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