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Pakistans Supreme Court has acquitted former prime minister Nawaz Sharif in the 10-year-old plane hijacking case lodged against him by the government of General Pervez Musharraf.A five-member bench of the apex court, which heard the case June 18 and reserved its verdict, unanimously acquitted the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader declaring earlier court decisions invalid.Nawaz was sentenced to life imprisonment twice by the Karachi Anti-Terrorism Court (APC) in April 2000, after the APC found him guilty of refusing to allow a commercial aircraft carrying Gen (r) Pervez Musharraf, the army chief at that time, along with 200 other passengers to land at the Quaid-e-Azam International Airport, Karachi on October 12, 1999.
