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Both brothers were disqualified on February 25 by the court and court stopped them from contesting elections and holding public office, a decision which caused widespread protests and flung the country into weeks of political chaos, as per news & breaking stories.
Last week the government filed appeals against the disqualification.
Reinstated chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry has appointed a five-member bench to hear the review petitions from Monday, a court official told to esolgsmnews team.
As Sharif joined hands with lawyers and was the political figurehead of a "long march" protest scheduled to converge on the capital Islamabad to press for the reinstatement of judges sacked by former president Pervez Musharraf, news latest breaking stories.
The government on March 17 vowed to reinstate Chaudhry and other judges, which saw Sharif call off the mass protest.
The February 25 court ruling stripped Shahbaz Sharif from office as chief minister of Punjab, Pakistan's politically most important province.
President Asif Ali Zardari imposed governor's rule, effectively taking direct and controversial control of Punjab through provincial governor Salman Taseer, a member of his own Pakistan People's Party, as per news stories.
A court in Lahore ruled last June that Nawaz Sharif, ousted by Musharraf in a 1999 coup, was ineligible to stand in a by-election because of criminal convictions, as per news stories.
He was convicted of "hijacking" a Pakistani commercial airliner carrying Musharraf after denying the aircraft landing rights while he was prime minister on October 12, 1999. The plane eventually landed and Musharraf seized power according to news stories.
Sharif's brother, who has been acquitted of murder charges, was disqualified on the grounds of defaulting on bank loans and ridiculing the judiciary.
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