REUTERS - Pakistan's Supreme Court on Monday began hearing challenges to an amnesty decree in a case that will determine whether politicians including close allies of President Asi Ali Zardari face revived corruption charges.
About 8,000 people -- among them cabinet ministers, bureaucrats and government officials -- could be tried on corruption and other criminal charges if the court rules the amnesty decree is unconstitutional.
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