(13 May 2008) SHOTLIST
1. Wide shot of Pakistan's former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's party workers cheering his arrival at the Session Court
2. Various of Nawaz Sharif waving to his supporters
3. Sharif, surrounded by supporters inside the office of the Magistrate of the Session Court/ UPSOUND: (English)
"Go Musharraf, go. Go Musharraf, go!"
4. Mid shot of Sharif submitting papers to apply to stand at by-election
5. Various of Nawaz and his supporters in the Session Court
6. Wide of Nawaz Sharif leaving the court
STORYLINE:
Pakistan's former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif submitted an application to contest a by-election in Lahore on Tuesday, potentially securing him a seat in Pakistan's parliament.
Sharif had been ineligible to run for parliament after receiving a life sentence for hijacking President Pervez Musharrraf's plane in 1999.
Saudi Arabia however intervened and he spent eight years in exile before returning to Pakistan this year.
Also on Tuesday ministers from Sharif's party submitted their resignations from Pakistan's Cabinet, shaking the fragile coalition government that took power just six weeks ago.
Sharif announced Monday that he was pulling his ministers from the government over its failure to meet a promise to
reinstate judges ousted by archrival President Pervez Musharraf.
But Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani's office said he did not immediately accept the nine resignations and that a decision on them would come after his party's leader, Asif Ali Zardari, returned to Pakistan - expected later Tuesday.
A withdrawal of Sharif's party raises the prospect of the fledgling government collapsing.
It could cast Pakistan into political turmoil just as it faces mounting economic woes and tries to maintain a fragile truce with Islamic militants along the Afghan border.
Keyword politics
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