Sharif Says He’s Staying Until 2018 Before Pakistan March

Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said voters will pick a new government in 2018 as one of his Cabinet members dismissed concerns that an opposition protest in the capital tomorrow would trigger a coup.

Sharif late yesterday appointed a commission to probe fraud allegations in the nation’s May 2013 elections, the first-ever democratic transfer of power in a country where the army has ruled for more than half of its history. Defense Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif said in an interview that ties with the military were “cordial and fine.”