Former premier Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam Nawaz will be arrested upon arrival at Lahore's Allama Iqbal International Airport and handed over to National Accountability Bureau (NAB) officials, a well-placed source told DawnNewsTV on Tuesday.
The decision was taken during a high-level meeting chaired by Interior Secretary Yousaf Naseem Khokhar, which was attended by the provincial chief secretary, the inspector general of police Punjab, the NAB director general Lahore, director general of the Federal Investigation Agency and Islamabad's chief commissioner.
It was decided that Nawaz and Maryam would be flown to Islamabad on a helicopter following their arrest.
The officials present at the meeting decided that if the security situation in the capital is conducive, the father-daughter duo may be produced before an accountability court the same day. If security is uncertain, a judicial remand may be sought while Nawaz and Maryam are held at Rawalpindi's Adiala jail, where Captain Safdar is also currently imprisoned.
The officials also considered seeking assistance from Rangers to maintain law and order, the source said.
The duo, currently in London, is scheduled to return to Pakistan on July 13, a week after an accountability court sentenced them to serve jail time in the Avenfield corruption reference. The two were also slapped with fines of 8 million pounds sterling (for Nawaz) and 2 million pounds (for Maryam).
After the accountability court announced its verdict in the Avenfield corruption reference on Friday, NAB had obtained arrest warrants for Nawaz and Maryam.
The federal Law and Information Minister Ali Zafar had said that the two would be arrested immediately upon their arrival at any airport in the country "if they do not get bail before landing in Pakistan".
Speaking to reporters in London, Nawaz said that he and his daughter would land in Lahore and decide their future strategy once they arrive in Pakistan.
NAB officials had also arrested Nawaz's son-in-law, retired Captain Mohammad Safdar, in Rawalpindi and sent him to jail on Monday. He had also been sentenced by the accountability court to one year in prison on charges of abetment in the Avenfield reference.
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Jul 10, 2018 06:00pm
hmm...they will cancel the plan now
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Jul 10, 2018 06:00pm
good dont let them meet supporters or attend rallys
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Jul 10, 2018 06:07pm
After arrival at lahore next programme ll be finalized as Nawaz said. Programme has been already sets out to send You in jail.
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Jul 10, 2018 06:08pm
Here or there, day or night. So much publicity being offered to something that may or may not happen!
When the too are in fact in Pakistani airspace, is the time to annouce where they will be allowed to land and where they will be arrested.
Premature announcements of plans is counter-productive and may allow their uncouth followers to prepare their own plans ahead of time to frustrate the authorities - albeit temporarily.
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Jul 10, 2018 06:14pm
Lets hope this is a warning to others who think they are above the law.
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Jul 10, 2018 06:16pm
Security forces, please arrest both convicted Nawaz Sharif and his daughter without any topi drama or publicity as they want! Don't let them dictate their terms and treat them as an ordinary convicted criminals - no special treatments please!
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Jul 10, 2018 06:22pm
Has anyone checked if Mr Safdar is still in jail? Surprised he hasn’t sorted his bail out yet...
As for father and daughter - authorities should not disclose their tactics beforehand - just arrest them and send them to jail ASAP but don’t say how
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Jul 10, 2018 06:28pm
Dear NS you are not the one to decide your future strategy once landed in Lahore.
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Jul 10, 2018 06:28pm
Excellent idea.....no fuss, clean cut!
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Jul 10, 2018 06:33pm
For the sake of your sick wife and mother, both of you should not come to PK. The courts should show some compassion. After all, NS was an elected PM and deserves some respect. They will honor the verdict when things improve and really no need to put them thru further agony - no rush.
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Jul 10, 2018 06:39pm
Excellent work
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Jul 10, 2018 06:42pm
They both should face full force of law and accept all recommendation of courts.
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Jul 10, 2018 06:47pm
The happiest day for Pakistanis in decades.
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Jul 10, 2018 06:55pm
Good step. These thugs are not to be spared. Now they are playing with people emotions reaching to so low that waiting for sympathy vote....Shame on them
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Jul 10, 2018 06:57pm
This how Pakistani kom repay you if u actually do something for its development
No other prime minister accomplished anything major in their tenure
Nawaz Sharif is being punished for Cepec for major highway projects that were actually completed
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Jul 10, 2018 07:04pm
Good for Pakistan
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Jul 10, 2018 07:06pm
Glad to hear that!
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Jul 10, 2018 07:30pm
Now Nawaz wants chaos and anarchy to remain relevant in politics nothing else can save him.
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Jul 10, 2018 07:37pm
Why all the drama, arrest them like any other ordinary people and put them in jail.
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Jul 10, 2018 07:41pm
No convicted person should be allowed to speak to the public. Enough of these shenanigans!
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Jul 10, 2018 07:45pm
They should be arrestes and banned from any press/media coverage to disturb law and order.
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Jul 10, 2018 08:14pm
i don't think they will return back to Pakistan, they wanted to have a public show but now that plan has been ruined by NAB. No criminal should be allowed to make a mockery of rule of law the way Safdar did in Rawalpindi as if he's done some tremendous service for Pakistan.
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Jul 10, 2018 08:20pm
The person who has belief in his integrity and on his people will come back. If not try bringing Musaraff.
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Jul 10, 2018 08:32pm
Excellent much awaited news for the nation. Congrats Pakistan, justice has finally prevailed!
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Jul 10, 2018 08:51pm
He is not coming
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Jul 10, 2018 08:59pm
They should be arrested on sight, given a fair trial, if found guilty Pakistan should take a page out of China’s book (make an example of them). Unfortunately this is the only way to put a stop to ongoing, widespread corruption.
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Jul 10, 2018 09:06pm
Remains to be seen what Lahore airport will look like on the 13th.
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Jul 10, 2018 09:09pm
Today we see judiciary evolved itself to high level, and still using limited powers. Never heard or seen condemned convicts so arrogant like Nawaz Sharif and his daughter, under no circumstances they wish to abandon their business cum politics profession. The Apex Court declared them dishonest and liers, but they stick to their chorus of democracy & sanctity of vote. The SC introduction of mandatory Affidavit with papers to ECP will greatly sort out the rotten eggs from the fray. Let us hope the next government will comprise honest persons, and rule of law will prevail.
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Jul 10, 2018 09:10pm
Flown... they should use one of the Red Line bus to transport them.
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Jul 10, 2018 09:25pm
They are total idiots if they return back to Pakistan. First you looted billions of dollars and now you want to be jailed. Why did they took all that money? What is the use of that money if they don’t spend it? Just stay in London and enjoy the loot. You are not welcome in Pakistan
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Jul 10, 2018 09:35pm
Real Drama. I guess only one will come and other will stay in London or wherever. Somebody is needed outside to fight their case otherwise aliens will shutdown everything against them. Likely only Mariam will come and you can put her in jail but you can’t stop her to become PM in 2023. She will be a force nobody can stop her and you will make her as popular or probably more than Benazir.
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Jul 10, 2018 09:37pm
Good days are ahead for Pakistan.
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Jul 10, 2018 09:45pm
They will be safer in Adiala than in London.
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Jul 10, 2018 10:03pm
Overcouse what else would you like us to do. Send you back to London Business Class.
If you can do the time, don’t do the crime!
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Jul 10, 2018 10:07pm
One wonders, so far why the father-daughter duo have been treated so royally?
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Jul 10, 2018 10:30pm
People are afraid to even comment. Good going.
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Jul 10, 2018 10:43pm
They will not come. Come on we all know that. And they should not also.
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Jul 10, 2018 10:44pm
Zardari is next, hopefully.
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Jul 10, 2018 10:46pm
Arrest Nawaz and Maryam and you will make martyrs of them. The BEST favor you can do for them.
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Jul 10, 2018 10:51pm
Assets beyond his means? And,he is the only one?
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Jul 10, 2018 11:07pm
The last couple of days and YouTube videos have shown why Nawaz Sharif may have decided to go back to a jail in Pakistan. Let this be a lesson to all Pakistanis who stash their loot abroad.
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Jul 10, 2018 11:32pm
I dont think they are going to come to Pakistan.
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Jul 11, 2018 12:07am
@Concerned 1 - "Cepec" was signed during Zardari govt; even Chinese ambassador confirmed it last week. Don't listen to lies of convicted criminals.
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Jul 11, 2018 12:13am
Don’t let the two corrupt Shriefs make their arrest and criminal conviction a welcome event.
They both be treated like felons. Thanks
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Jul 11, 2018 12:21am
Fingers crossed.Attendance on 13th at the airport will give an idea of Punjab voting mood on 25th.
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Jul 11, 2018 12:31am
I doubt about his return
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Jul 11, 2018 12:57am
What you sow so shall you reap.
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Jul 11, 2018 01:41am
@ahamed Justice delayed is justice denied
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Jul 11, 2018 01:43am
@Concerned 1 you are right! No other PM has looted the country as much as this man.
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Jul 11, 2018 02:42am
There seems to be a total lack of secrecy in sensitive matters in Pakistan!!
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Jul 11, 2018 03:34am
@Concerned 1 CPEC is not running on time - Shariffs took a big hand out on that one, highway projects they used their own steel- the punishment is for corruption....have you not been reading the papers?
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Jul 11, 2018 04:25am
@Concerned 1
I guess you haven’t read the judgement
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Jul 11, 2018 04:28am
@Ash2000
Er, she won’t be out of jail until 2025. Then she has a 10 year disqualification period, the next general elections after that 2038, so that is when she could become the PM
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Jul 11, 2018 04:55am
No bail should be issued to them.
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Jul 11, 2018 05:04am
Please give them a normal jail cell!!
Not the VIP culture air conditioned rooms with
Phone and internet and gourmet food !!
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Jul 11, 2018 05:29am
@Concerned 1 Do you have any idea of the charges of corruption this family is found guilty of? Entire nation is in trouble because of Nawaz and Zardari family.
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Jul 11, 2018 06:28am
These people have not learned their lesson for the last40 years,
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Jul 11, 2018 06:38am
Everyone talking about Nawaz now before the election. What a media hype!
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Jul 11, 2018 07:28am
The convicts will be dealt with according to law. No one will be allowed to take law and order in their hand beside peoples are convinced about the high corruptions by Nawaz Sharif and his family.
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Jul 11, 2018 08:17am
Inshallah they will be arrested and face the punishment
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Jul 11, 2018 08:53am
Land the plane in Rawalpindi instead of Lahore & followed by helicopter ride.
NS is found guilty & that means no politics.
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