Nawaz Sharif
A plane carrying disgraced former Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam Nawaz has landed at Allama Iqbal International Airport in the eastern city of Lahore.
Officials from Pakistan’s anti-corruption body are present at the airport to arrest Sharif and his daughter, who were convicted and sentenced in absentia to 10 and seven years respectively in a corruption case.
Sharif and his daughter are expected to be transported to the garrison city of Rawalpindi, where both will serve their jail term if they do not seek bail.
The pair arrived from London, where they were visiting Sharif’s ailing wife when a Pakistani court convicted them of corruption.
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