The government in Pakistan defused a mounting political crisis by announcing the reinstatement of Iftikhar Chaudhry as chief justice, a post from which he was sacked in 2007 by Pervez Musharraf, the president at the time. The issue had provoked huge protests. The reinstatement forestalled a procession to the capital, Islamabad, led by Nawaz Sharif, a former prime minister.rnPakistan's government dismissed a report in the New York Times suggesting that America was thinking about broadening the scope of its unmanned air strikes in Pakistan from the semi-autonomous tribal areas to include the province of Baluchistan. According to the report, the strikes, in support of operations in Afghanistan, had driven Taliban fighters out of the tribal areas.
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