Pakistan PM Sharif to pick new chief of powerful military

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Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif is likely to pick a new army chief in the next couple of days, two government officials said on Wednesday, after the military said it had sent a list of six candidates to his office. This key appointment has never attracted so much jokeying, lobbying and controversy, analysts said, mainly because former prime minister Imran Khan has alleged that the military played a key role in his ouster in a parliamentary vote in April. The military, a powerful institution in Pakistan that has often led the country and has often decided who governs it, denies his allegations.