... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf, then by the courts...and his daughter Maryam have been nabbed
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upon arrival in the country ahead of the July 25 elections.
Uniformed men escorted the duo from the airplane after it touched down in the central city of Lahore at around 8:45 p.m. local time (1645 GMT) on Friday evening.
A front man for Sharif's Pakistain Moslem League-Nawaz (PML-N) party confirmed they were detained soon afterward.
Local media reports said Sharif and his daughter were put on board another waiting aircraft to be flown out of Lahore.
A series of festivities broke out at the main highway entry point to Lahore between pro-Sharif protesters and police who had been deployed in their thousand.
Sharif's brother, Shehbaz, led around 10,000 party supporters during a march on the city center in defiance of a citywide ban on public gatherings.
Mobile phone service had been cut off in mid-afternoon across Lahore and surrounding areas.
The country's media regulator in a statement told local news channels to abstain from airing statements "by politicianship containing defamatory and derogatory content targeting various state institutions specifically judiciary and armed forces."
The former premier decried the tactics ordered by the caretaker government that took over in June.
"What credibility will these elections have when the government is taking such a drastic action against our people and this crackdown is taking place all over the country?" Sharif said at the airport in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates, as he waited for a connecting flight to Lahore.
Pakistain's major political movement, the Pakistain Peoples Party, also censured the crackdown, with its prime ministerial candidate Bilawal
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...Pak dynastic politician, son of Benazir Bhutto and grandon of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. As far as is known, Bilawal has no particular talents other than being pretty and being able to memorize political slogans, but he had the good luck to be born into the right family and he hasn't been assassinated yet...
questioning why Sharif's supporters would be prevented from gatherings.