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Stay put, don’t plot: Saudis tell Sharif

Former PM of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif, who was deported to Saudi Arabia on Monday, has been virtually imprisoned at the Saroor Palace in Jeddah.

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ISLAMABAD: Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif, who was deported to Saudi Arabia on Monday, has been virtually imprisoned at the Saroor Palace in Jeddah.

The Saudi authorities have confiscated Sharif's passport and banned him from indulging in any political activity.

Well-placed government officials in Islamabad said that the Saudi Arabian government has made it clear to Sharif that he will not be allowed to travel out of the kingdom till December 2010. That is when Sharif's exile deal, which he signed with the Saudis in 2000, is due to end.

Sources said Sharif will not be allowed to meet any Pakistani political figure for the next three years and will be barred from issuing any political statement.

Sources said the recent developments concerning Sharif are likely to change the royal family's attitude towards him. The sources cited the trip that the Saudi Arabian secret-service chief had to undertake to Pakistan to work against Sharif's return as one of the irritants.

Saudi intelligence chief Prince Muqrin bin Abdul Aziz had made it clear to Sharif that his deportation was imminent, the sources said. But Sharif had apparently pinned his hopes on the Supreme Court order which had said he should be allowed to return.

The sources said that Sharif's party will now try to have his wife Begum Kulsoom flown into Pakistan on September 20. If she is also deported to Jeddah, then their son Hussain Nawaz would give it a shot, they said.

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