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Saudi to take Pakistan ex-PM Sharif back into exile

10 Sep 2007 08:37:53 GMT
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RIYADH, Sept 10 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia will allow former Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif to return to exile in the kingdom after he was deported from Islamabad within hours of his arrival on Monday, a Saudi source said.

The source said Sharif would arrive in the Red Sea city of Jeddah around 3.30 p.m. (1230 GMT) and be allowed to stay.

President Pervez Musharraf had sent Sharif to exile in Saudi Arabia in 2000 after toppling his government in 1999. Saudi Arabia had asked Sharif not to return to Pakistan.

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