Deposed Premier Nawaz Sharif, who has vowed to return home along with his brother on September 10 after a seven-year exile, would be detained after his arrival here and ‘deported’ to either Britain or Saudi Arabia
ISLAMABAD: Deposed Premier Nawaz Sharif, who has vowed to return home along with his brother on September 10 after a seven-year exile, would be detained after his arrival here and ‘deported’ to either Britain or Saudi Arabia, a Pakistani minister has said.
After his detention, ‘Sharif might be kept in jail for a day or so and then he will be deported to London, Saudi Arabia or elsewhere,’ Railways Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmad was quoted by 'Dawn' as saying.
The government wanted to ensure that Sharif was not provided an opportunity to become a hero in a day, he said.
However, some reports here also said the government planned to divert to Quetta, the capital of Balochistan, the plane bringing Sharif and his brother Shahbaz to Islamabad.
The Sharifs have also turned down a plea by Saad Hariri, son of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri, to delay their return to Pakistan and pledged to come back on Monday as scheduled, according to a close aide of the deposed Premier.
Sharif and his brother told Saad Hariri, presumably an emissary of Saudi Arabia, during a meeting in London two days back that they would return home on Monday, 'Dawn' quoted Pervez Rashid, Sharif's aide, as saying.
Saudi Arabia, which negotiated the Sharifs' exile with Musharraf in 2000 and later provided them asylum in Jeddah, has already expressed unhappiness over their plans to return.
As an alternative, Hariri proposed that ‘Shahbaz could return home as planned on September 10 but Nawaz Sharif should follow him after the presidential elections," Pervez Rashid was quoted by the daily as saying.
"But, Sharif has vowed to return to his home country, come what may."
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