Crisis averted in Pakistan
Opposition leaders and lawyers in Pakistan have called off their protests after the government’s decision to reinstate a fired Supreme Court chief justice. The standoff over the justice and other judges had threatened stability in Pakistan. The World’s Laura Lynch reports from Islamabad.
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