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An armored vehicle allegedly carrying Sharif and Maryam arrives at Adiala Prison in Rawalpindi, near Islamabad. – Photo AFP
LAHORE, Pakistan: Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was arrested on Friday upon his return to the country, where he faces ten years in prison for corruption, ahead of the already tense elections that his party claims be faked.
Sharif and his daughter Maryam "were arrested" by the authorities of corruption "with immediate effect and until further order", 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 to AFP on condition of anonymity
Sharif, who claims to be targeted by the powerful security of the country. This party fights for its political life while its party of the Muslim League Pakistan-Nawaz (PML-N) makes its debut in the last weeks of campaign before the national elections of July 25.
Some 15,000 supporters of singing and dancing It is a main artery, before the return of Sharif from London, reports an AFP reporter.
Lahore is the capital of the Punjab province, the most populous of Pakistan and a bastion of the PML-N
. the road leading to Adiala Prison in Rawalpindi, the neighboring garrison town of Islamabad, where it was expected that Sharif would be taken away before going to a house of On the outskirts of the capital, according to authorities A hundred police officers blocked the road to the prison with cargo containers, reported an AFP reporter.
Analysts said Sharif's return – a week after being sentenced in absentia to 10 years in prison. in prison by a court of corruption for the purchase of high-end properties in London – could help raise the fortune of his party before the vote.
"I know that … I will be taken directly to prison", Sharif, who was ousted In a video released by his party earlier Friday, he asked Pakistanis to "walk with me, to join to me and change the destination of Sharif's brother, Shahbaz, who heads the PML-N election campaign, said on Thursday that hundreds of workers and party supporters had been arrested in what he Qualified pre-election rigging "naked"
.While the political drama was unfolding, fears of violence also increased before the elections, after a suicide bomber targeting a political rally in southwestern province Baluchistan killed 128 people in one of the deadliest attacks in Pakistani history
crowd in the city of Mastung – AFP
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