Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was arrested

Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam were arrested Friday in the Pakistani city of Lahore, a week after being sentenced to 10 and 7 years in prison respectively for corruption. 19659002] "A National Accountability Office (NAB) team placed Nawaz Sharif and Maryam Sharif in custody on their arrival at Lahore airport from Abu Dhabi," said Lahore Police Chief Amara Athar, Efe.

A Lahore police spokesman, Mohamed Safdar, told Efe that an anti-corruption team, accompanied by members of the police and (19659002) in Lahore, capital of Punjab province, thousands of supporters of Sharif and his "Muslim League of Pakistan" (PML-N) protested the arrest of the leader, who returned to the country within two weeks of the general elections scheduled for day 25. Local television showed some clashes between the protesters and the security forces, but the police did not give information on the number of wounded and detained.

The protests occurred even after the provincial government called 10,000 police officers and banned the PML-N from protesting. Authorities blocked several streets to prevent Sharif supporters from approaching the airport and cutting off mobile communications.

Sharif was removed from office as prime minister in July 2017 by the Supreme Court of Pakistan as a result of an irregularity detected in an investigation that began in the so-called "Panama Papers", millions of confidential documents of the law firm Mossack Fonseca of Panama