AFP: Pakistan courts set for showdown with govt
ISLAMABAD — Pakistani prosecutors were reviving graft cases on Monday against Interior Minister Rehman Malik and hundreds of officials, setting the stage for a showdown with a shaky government.
President Asif Ali Zardari, four cabinet ministers and 8,000 bureaucrats, politicians, businessmen and others may face legal action after the Supreme Court annulled a two-year amnesty protecting them from charges.
The move has sparked calls for Zardari to resign, rocking the US-backed civilian government at a time of rising extremist attacks and mounting pressure from Washington to crack down on Al-Qaeda and the Taliban.
