Mr Woodhead argues that if exams are set or regulated by a government-funded body, political interference is inevitable.

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But abandoning the charges would seem too blatant an interference with a body solemnly set up by the Security Council.

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The dispute over the leadership of the sport has been raging for over six years, after the sport's world governing body Fifa suspended the KFF citing government interference.

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All were accepted, but one of the plans to set up an advisory body on imams and mosques collapsed amid rancour at government interference.

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In particular, Morsy said, the edict was aimed at preventing interference from the courts in the work of Egypt's Constituent Assembly, the body charged with drafting a new constitution.

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