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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. Pakistan is a terrorist country by Chrisq · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    9% of Pakistanis view ISIS as positive. The intelligence services aided the Mumbai terrorist attacks. In comparison a little embezzlement by the PM is a small concern.

  2. Guess whose name appears 3,540 times? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Take a guess which President is referred to 3540 times in the Panama papers connected to concealed trust? Trump.

    My bet, since Mueller started investigating Trump's finances, Trump seems to have gone on full panic mode. Trump will try to fire him.

    Trump will sack Jeff Sessions, he cannot replace him without a Senate confirmation, so he will appoint an interim person to stand that has already been confirmed. Most likely Brian Benczkowski (whose done work for Alfabank) or Wilbur Ross (headed Cyprus Bank alongside Vekselberg a Putin nominee).

    That person will sack Mueller and try to shut down the FBI investigation by budget control.