Three cases before the country’s increasingly assertive Supreme Court promise to take Pakistan from the phase of demilitarization to a system in which meaningful checks can be exercised on those who wield power. One case is an attempt to force Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani’s administration to reopen proceedings in a Swiss court that were examining charges of money-laundering and misuse of public funds by President Asif Ali Zardari.
而在将巴基斯坦从去军事化转型到一个可以对掌权人物实施有效制衡的承诺方面，自信程度日渐增加的巴基斯坦最高法院审理了三大案件。第一个案件就是要求总理吉拉尼的政府重开一个瑞士法庭指控总统扎尔达里洗钱以及挪用公共基金的审判进程。该进程在扎尔达里当选总统后就在巴基斯坦政府的要求下停止了。