Pakistan's president faced fresh calls to step down Thursday after the Supreme Court struck down an amnesty that had protected the increasingly unpopular leader and several of his political allies from corruption charges.
The decision late Wednesday weakened the already shaky rule of President Asif Ali Zardari and sharpened political tensions in the nuclear-armed nation just as the United States and its other Western allies want it to unite and fight militants along the Afghan border.
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