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Pakistan's Anti-Graft Agency Arrests, Indicts Opposition Leaders

Ayaz Gul

   ISLAMABAD - Pakistan's anti-corruption authorities Monday arrested the
   leader of the opposition in Parliament, Shehbaz Sharif, after a high
   court rejected his bail plea in a money laundering case.

   Sharif, president of the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) (PML-N), was
   taken into custody from the court's premises in the eastern city of
   Lahore. His wife, sons and daughters are also accused in the case.

   Shortly before his arrest, Sharif denied any wrongdoing as the chief
   executive of Pakistan's most populous province of Punjab.

   His elder brother, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, was ousted in 2017
   after a court sentenced him to a seven-year jail term for possessing
   assets beyond his known sources of income.

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