
Pakistan's Supreme Court disqualified Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif from office July 28 for failing to disclose his role as chairman of Dubai-based firm Capital FZE when filing nomination papers for office in 2013. The judgment was part of the court's review of the recently concluded Joint Investigation Team's report into Sharif's finances, triggered by the Panama Papers leaks in April 2016. The courts also ousted Sharif's finance minister, Ishaq Dar, and ejected Sharif's son-in-law, Muhammad Safdar, from his seat in the lower house of parliament. Sharif has failed to finish his term as prime minister before. During his first term in 1993, a power struggle between him and President Ghulam Ishaq Khan ultimately compelled Chief of Army Staff Gen. Abdul Waheed to intervene and request both men to resign. During Sharif's second term in 1999, Chief of Army Staff Gen.