Pakistan Deports Ex-PM on Return from Exile

World | September 10, 2007, Monday // 00:00
Pakistan Deports Ex-PM on Return from Exile Nawaz Sharif was mobbed on his arrival at Islamabad. Photo by bbc.com

Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has been arrested and deported within hours of returning from exile, BBC reported, citing officials.

After landing in Islamabad he was charged and put on board a plane bound for Saudi Arabia, Religious Affairs Minister Ejaz ul-Haq told BBC News.

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

Sharif arrived in Pakistan weeks after the country's Supreme Court affirmed his right to return.

On board the plane which flew him to Pakistan from London, Sharif told the BBC he wanted to help restore the rule of law.

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