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WORLD / Asia-Pacific
Former Pakistani PM deported to Saudi Arabia after return
(Xinhua/Agencies)
Updated: 2007-09-10 17:43
ISLAMABAD -- Exiled former Prime Minister of Pakistan and leader of
Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Nawaz Sharif was deported on Monday
to Saudi Arabia hours?after his return to Pakistan from seven years in
exile.
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is arrested upon his arrival
at Islamabad's airport, September 10, 2007. Then he was deported to
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, an intelligence official said. [Reuters]
Sharif has been put on an Airbus A310 plane of Pakistan International
Airlines (PIA) and deported by the government to Saudi Arabia, the DAWN
NEWS said.
Sharif's flight arrived at the airport on a flight from London early
Monday morning. A high-level delegation of the government tried to
negotiate with him, offering two choices: to be deported or jailed.
Sharif was later arrested by the police on corruption charges and taken
away by a helicopter.
Saudi intelligence chief Prince Muqrin bin Abdul Aziz on Saturday urged
Sharif to honor his exile agreement and not to return to Pakistan before
completing?10 years.
However, Sharif said that his exile was only for five years and insisted
on returning to Parkistan.
Sharif, twice elected as Prime Minister of Pakistan, served two
non-consecutive terms. He was arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment
in 2000 on charges of hijacking and terrorism after General Pervez
Musharraf staged a bloodless coup in the country. The Pakistani
government agreed to commute his sentence from life in prison to exile in
Saudi Arabia for?10 years.
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