Pakistan "to Deport" Ex-PM Sharif after Exile

World | September 10, 2007, Monday // 00:00

Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has been arrested and is to be deported after returning to Pakistan from exile, BBC reported, citing officials.

After landing in Islamabad, he was charged and bundled onto a helicopter.

Initial reports said he was bound for prison in Pakistan, but a top minister has told the BBC that he is being deported, possibly to Saudi Arabia.

Sharif says he wants to challenge President Pervez Musharraf, who ousted him in a 1999 coup, ahead of elections.

Sharif arrived home weeks after Pakistan's Supreme Court affirmed his right to return.

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