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Pakistan: power change Indonesia:

Pakistan’s Christians appear to have thrown some of their political support to Nawaz Sharif in the May 11 national election, even as they have reason to be wary of his return to power on June 5.

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Nawaz Sherif

Sharif’s party, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, or PMLN, won 124 of the 272 directly elected seats in the lower house of Parliament. In Punjab province, home to more than half of Pakistan’s population and 80% of its Christians, the PMLN won a two-thirds majority in the provincial government.