Ex-Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif returns to Pakistan to face jail

Ousted leader heads home from UK despite being sentenced to ten years for corruption

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Nawaz Sharif has served as PM of Pakistan for three non-consecutive terms

Former Pakistani leader Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam are returning to Pakistan from the UK just days after both were handed lengthy jail sentences by an anti-corruption court.

The three-term prime minister, who was ousted from office last year, was sentenced in absentia last week to ten years in prison, after Pakistan’s National Accountability Bureau (NAB) ruled that he and his family laundered money in the 1990s to pay for luxury apartments in Park Lane, central London.

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