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LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) – Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam were arrested on Friday after returning to their country, where they were sentenced last week to long prison terms for corruption.
The leader of the Pakistani Muslim League-Nawaz (LMP-N), who returned from London to try to contribute to the success of his training in the legislative elections of July 25, arrived around 8:45 pm (4:45 pm GMT) in Lahore, where Uniformed men immediately arrested him with his daughter, a Reuters journalist who was on the same plane reported.
A spokesman for the LMP-N confirmed shortly after their arrest. According to a local television channel, they then left Lahore on another plane. About ten thousand supporters of the former head of government had gathered there to cheer him.
His return could give a new twist to a campaign full of accusations against the army, suspected of seeking to favor Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) led by former cricket champion Imran Khan. [19659002ClashesbetweensupportersofNawazSharifandsecurityforcesbrokeoutonalargearteryinLahoreonFridaywhereanimposingpolicedevicewasdeployedaccordingtoanon-siteReutersreporter
The mobile phone network was also deactivated in the middle of the afternoon, while 10,000 people led by Shehbaz Sharif, brother of Nawaz and leader of the LMP-N, braved the ban on demonstrations in
In addition to political tensions, a suicide attack at an election rally killed 85 people in Mastung, Baluchistan province on Friday.
Nawaz Sharif, who was at the head of his neat wife in London, and his daughter, who is also his political heir, were respectively sentenced on Friday in absentia to ten and seven years in prison for corruption.
The former prime minister was dismissed by the Supreme Court in 2017 for concealing income. He denounced a political decision and hinted that the army was at the origin of this procedure.
(Drazen Jorgic and Mubasher Bukhari with Saad Sayeed in Islamabad and Syed Raza Hbadan in Karachi, Jean-Philippe Lefief for the service french)
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