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How international media covered Nawaz, Maryam arrest

Dunya News has compiled how media around the globe viewed Nawaz Sharif and Maryam Nawaz arrest.

14 July,2018 04:09 am

LAHORE (Dunya News) – Former prime minister and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam Nawaz who had been arrested by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) minutes after they landed at Lahore’s Allama Iqbal International Airport have been shifted to Adiala jail.

The sentences, delivered in absentia, against Nawaz Sharif and his daughter who is widely seen as his political heir, have dealt a blow to their Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) party. Nawaz and Maryam were served with a legal warrant as soon as they entered Pakistan s airspace.

Nawaz was sentenced to 11 years in prison by a corruption court over his family’s purchase of luxury apartments in London, whereas, his daughter Maryam was sentenced to seven years in prison.

The ex-premier’s son-in-law is currently serving his one-year prison sentence on the same charge, which stems from the purchase of luxury apartments in Britain that the court said were bought with illegally gotten money.

Dunya News has compiled how newspapers and media organisations around the globe viewed Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam Nawaz arrest at the Lahore airport.