Mr Sharif's party, the Pakistan Muslim League, this week petitioned the Supreme Court to rule that the coup was illegal.

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The prime minister he deposed in a coup, Nawaz Sharif, is petitioning the supreme court to let him to return to Pakistan.

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When Egypt's Supreme Constitutional Court dissolved parliament just before the runoff election, many activists accused the military of orchestrating a soft coup, but the few calls for mass protest were largely ignored.

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