July 13, 2018:
Information Minister Syed Ali Zafar has stated that Former Pakistani PM Nawaz Sharif will be arrested at the Airport when he lands at Lahore Airport from London.
Over 300 PML-N workers and leaders have been detained in Pakistan in a massive crackdown on party activists in Lahore ahead of arrival of its Supreme Leader Nawaz Sharif, who would be arrested along with his daughter and transported to jail via a helicopter.
Sharif and his daughter Maryam Nawaz, were convicted by a Pakistani Court in Avenfield Apartments case and sentenced to 10 and 7 years in jail respectively, boarded a International Flight on Thursday and will arrive in Lahore via Abu Dhabi at 6.15 pm (local time) on Friday.
Anti-Graft Body National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Chairman Javed Iqbal has ordered taking all necessary measures to arrest Sharif and Maryam upon their arrival at the airport.
He has formed a 16-member team to arrest them and shift them to Adiala Jail Rawalpindi after producing them at the Accountability Court that sentenced the father-daughter duo last week.
According to sources, Cabinet Division has allocated two helicopters reserved for Prime Minister to NAB to shift Sharif and his daughter to jail from Airport.
Deputy Inspector General Operations Shahzad Akbar said 10,000 police officers will be deployed across the city tomorrow to “maintain law and order”.
Anti-Riot Unit will be on alert, and the Dolphin Squad and the Police Response Unit will be deployed to sensitive areas of the city.
“No one will be allowed to take the law into their own hands,” he said.
Lahore police has also placed containers on the city roads leading to the airport. A narrow passage has been left for motorists where police have been deployed for checking.
“Over 100 police commandos will be deployed at the airport on Friday to avert any untoward incident,” senior Lahore police officer Sardar Asif said.
He said the police are taking only anti-social elements into custody ahead of Sharif’s arrival. He said the arrested PML-N activists have been detained for 30 days under public order.
Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) spokesperson Marriyum Aurenzeb told PTI that police have arrested over 300 PML-N workers mostly from Lahore to stop them from welcoming Sharif at the airport.
Such a massive crackdown on PML-N workers never happened even in the martial law regime, she said.
Source HT
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