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India-Pakistan
Ousted Pakistani premier Sharif sentenced to seven years in jail for graft
2018-12-25
[PRESSTV] A Pak court has tossed in the slammer
Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'!
former prime minister Nawaz Sharif
... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf, then by the courts...
for seven years on graft charges and fined him $25 million for corruption, the latest conviction in a series of allegations which saw him ousted from power last year.

The anti-corruption court said in its ruling on Monday that Sharif was unable to prove the source of income that led to his ownership of the al-Azizia Steel Mills in Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
The three-time prime minister was found to have been unable to demonstrate that his family had acquired the steel mill legitimately.

Sharif was taken into custody and will be sent to a prison in the city of Lahore, state-run Pakistain Television reported.

Ahead of the verdict, Sharif's Pakistain Moslem League-Nawaz (PML-N) supporters clashed outside the courthouse, with police firing tear gas against stone-throwing protesters.
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