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Calibri Font Plays Its Role: Pakistan Now Sans Sharif as Prime Minister is Disqualified (neowin.net)

Usama Jawad, writing for Neowin: A few weeks ago, we reported that Microsoft's Calibri font has been used as evidence against Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his family in a corruption case. Today, Sharif has been disqualified from his position as a part of the court's final verdict of the case. The case concerns the "Panama Papers", which is a collection of 11.5 million documents detailing information related to over 200,000 offshore accounts. Ever since the Panama Papers were anonymously leaked back in 2015, there has been a major shift in the political situation in many countries. One such country is Pakistan, where the names of numerous members of the Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's family were spotted in the papers. If you aren't aware of the Calibri controversy, it is as follows: Nawaz Sharif's daughter Maryam Nawaz submitted photocopies of several documents in order to deny any corruption, but it appears that the documents contained Microsoft's Calibri font, even though they were dated February 6, 2006. It is important to note that the font wasn't commercially available until much later. Despite being created in 2004, the font did not reach the general public until January 30, 2007.

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  1. Re:Pakistan is a terrorist country by CriticalYetLazy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So when one 1:10 are pro ISIS/terrorism/etc, you declare a whole country as "terrorist"? In the same respect, western countries are gay, since they have, an average, about 10% gay people? There may be a lot of off shit going on over there, but this kind of generalism is really foolish.

  2. Re:Pakistan is a terrorist country by unixisc · · Score: 4, Insightful

    While 1 in 10 may be pro ISIS, other 9 support other Jihadist groups, like the Taliban, al Qaeda, Lashkar e Toiba, Jaish e Mohammed, Harkat e Mujahedeen, and a plethory of Islamic alphabet soup of Jihadist groups. So yeah, that whole country IS terrorist.

  3. They must not have heard of Dan Rather by robkeeney · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You'd think that people would know better than to just toss something off on their computer and back date it by now.The internet will find you out!