Pakistanis share sweets to celebrate Wednesday's Supreme Court decision in Karachi, Pakistan on Thursday, Dec. 17, 2009. 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. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)
- Pakistanis share sweets to celebrate Wednesday's Supreme Court decision in Karachi, Pakistan on Thursday, Dec. 17, 2009. 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. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)
- Supporters of Pakistan's former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif share sweets to celebrate Wednesday's Supreme Court decision in Multan, Pakistan on Thursday, Dec. 17, 2009. 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.(AP Photo/Khalid Tanveer)
- Pakistani lawyers distribute sweets to celebrate Wednesday's Supreme Court decision in Lahore, Pakistan on Thursday, Dec. 17, 2009. 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.(AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)
- Supporters of Pakistan People's party chants slogans against the Supreme Court's decision in Lahore, Pakistan, Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2009. Pakistan's top court struck down an amnesty Wednesday that had protected the president from corruption charges, paving the way for challenges to his shaky rule and causing political turbulence just as the U.S. wants Islamabad to step up its fight against Islamist militants. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)
- Pakistani lawyers react after the Supreme Court's decision outside the court in Islamabad, Pakistan, Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2009. Pakistan's top court struck down an amnesty Wednesday that had protected the president from corruption charges, paving the way for challenges to his shaky rule and causing political turbulence just as the U.S. wants Islamabad to step up its fight against Islamist militants. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)
- Qazi Hussain Ahmed, leader of Pakistani religious party Jamat-i-Islami talks to reporters after the Pakistan's Supreme Court's decision outside the court in Islamabad, Pakistan on Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2009. Pakistan's top court Wednesday struck down an amnesty that had protected the president from corruption charges, paving the way for challenges to his shaky rule and causing political turbulence just as the U.S. wants Islamabad to step up its fight against Islamist militants. (AP Photo/B.K.Bangash)
- Pakistani lawyers celebrate the Court's decision outside the Supreme Court in Islamabad, Pakistan on Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2009. Pakistan's top court Wednesday struck down an amnesty that had protected the president from corruption charges, paving the way for challenges to his shaky rule and causing political turbulence just as the U.S. wants Islamabad to step up its fight against Islamist militants. (AP Photo/B.K.Bangash)
- Farhatullah Babar, spokesman of Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zaradri listens to reporters after the Supreme Court's decision outside the Court in Islamabad, Pakistan on Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2009. Pakistan's top court Wednesday struck down an amnesty that had protected the president from corruption charges, paving the way for challenges to his shaky rule and causing political turbulence just as the U.S. wants Islamabad to step up its fight against Islamist militants. (AP Photo/B.K.Bangash)
- A view on Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2009 of devastation caused by Tuedsay's bombing in Dera Ghazi Khan, Pakistan. A suicide attacker detonated a car bomb in a market close to a politician's home in central Pakistan, killing 33 people and showing the increasing reach of Taliban militants in the nuclear-armed nation.(AP Photo/Khalid Tanveer)
- Pakistani women mourn the death of their family member who was killed in Tuesday's bombing in Dera Ghazi Khan, Pakistan on Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2009. A suicide attacker detonated a car bomb in a market close to a politician's home in central Pakistan, killing dozens and showing the increasing reach of Taliban militants in the nuclear-armed nation. (AP Photo/Khalid Tanveer)
- Supporters of Pakistan's religious party Jamat-e-Islami hold anti-American rally in Lahore, Pakistan Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2009. Participants of the rally chanted anti-US slogans and demanded to halt their attacks against militants in Pakistani tribal regions. Banner reads ' The US and Indian dominance is unacceptable.'(AP Photo/K.M.Chaudary)
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