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LAHORE, PAKISTAN : Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was arrested on Friday upon his return to the country, where he faces 10 years in prison for corruption, before the already tense elections that his party claims be faked.
Sharif and his daughter Maryam "were arrested" by the corrupt authorities "with immediate effect and until further notice," according to a statement from the administration of the city of Islamabad. They landed in Lahore and were later taken to the capital, the statement said.
An anti-corruption official confirmed the arrests at AFP under cover of anonymity.
Sharif, who claims to be targeted by the country's powerful security system, is fighting for his political life The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) party has slammed the last weeks of campaign before the elections July 25th.
Some 15,000 supporters sang and danced at the Lahore Mall before Sharif returned from London, a journalist AFP said:
Lahore is the capital of Punjab province, the most populated Pakistan and a bastion of the PML-N.
A small contingent of about twenty partisans was waiting on the road to Adiala. Rawalpindi Prison, the neighboring garrison town of Islamabad, where it was expected that Sharif would be taken to a guest house on the outskirts of the capital, whose authorities stated that she had been declared "sub-prison".
About 100 police blocked the road to the jail with cargo containers, a reporter reported AFP
Analysts said Sharif's return – a week after being sentenced in absentia to 10 years in prison. prison by a court of corruption on the purchase of high-end properties in London – could help lift the fortunes of his party before the vote.
"I know that … I will be directly taken to prison," Sharif, who was He was ousted from the Supreme Court's corruption last year and later also banned from politics for life, said in a video released by his party on Friday.
He asked the Pakistanis to "walk with me and change the destination of Thursday, Shahbaz, the brother of Sharif, who leads the PML-N election campaign, said that hundreds of workers and supporters of the party had been arrested in what he called "pre-voting." [19659002] Fear of Security
As political drama unfolded, fears of violence also exploded after a suicide bomber targeting a political rally in southwest Baluchistan Province, killing 128 people in one of the deadliest attacks in Pakistani history – Recently, four people were killed by a bomb targeting convoy of another politician in the north-west of the country.Tuesday, a bombing claimed by the Pakistani Taliban targeted a political rally in the city of Peshawar, killing 22 people.
d & # 3 series 9, attacks pointed to the fragility of Pakistan's security, analysts warn that politicians and security forces have not yet addressed the root causes of extremism.
The military has already warned of security threats and announced that it would deploy more than 370,000 soldiers on polling day.
The Pakistani army remains its most powerful institution and has faced grim allegations that it is pressuring the media and politicians to try to manipulate the PML-N polls.
She denies the charges. The election will pit the PML-N against its main rival, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, a party led by Imran Khan, a politician turned cricket.
Since Sharif's return to London in the month of October, when his wife is being treated for cancer, the PML-N has fallen into disarray and failed to organize a campaign to rally the base before the elections .
Recent polls have shown that the popularity of ITP is steadily increasing. with the PML-N.
Analyst Zahid Hussain said that the ex-leader "defended himself for his political life".
"Certainly it would have been worse for the party's prospects if it had not come," Hussain added.
Sharif was the fifteenth prime minister in Pakistan's 70-year history – about half under the military regime – to be kidnapped before he completed a full term.
He faced – and fought – similar challenges in the past.
In 1993, he was fired from his first term as prime minister for corruption. His second term ended with a coup d'etat in 1999 and he was imprisoned by the military regime while he was being tried on several counts, including corruption [19659002] "In Pakistan, leaders must go to jail," Pakistani journalist Rahimullah Yusufzai
Sharif was later allowed by the military regime to exile in Saudi Arabia, returning in 2007 before becoming Prime Minister for the third time in 2013. – AFP
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