Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam, sentenced to jail for corruption, are likely to be arrested at the Lahore airport, reports said hours before their arrival on Friday evening. 

Over 10,000 police officers have been posted in Lahore for what is expected to be a dramatic homecoming for the three-time prime minister who wants to mobilise his party ahead of general elections on July 25. 

The administration has ordered that mobile phones will be shut in the city from 3 pm to 12 am.

Sharif and his daughter Maryam, who was given a seven-year sentence by the same court last week, won’t be allowed to leave the airport, the caretaker information minister Syed Ali Zafar said in broadcast comments.

Source: NDTV, Hindustan Times

BDST: 1245 HRS, JUL 13, 2018
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