- Tuesday, April 16, 2024
By: Rithika Siddhartha
PAKISTAN’S ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif appeared in court today (3), a day after returning from London to face corruption allegations that saw him ejected from office and targeted with an arrest warrant. In a brief hearing in Islamabad, Sharif paid two surety bonds of Rs 5 million ($48,000) each before leaving under tight security, his lawyer Khawaja Haris said. The court is set to reconvene on November 7. The former prime minister, who was forced out by the Supreme Court in July over a scandal kindled by the Panama Papers leak, had been facing an arrest warrant for failing…
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