Pakistan News And Discussion-12

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<b>Sharif plane lands in Islamabad </b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Paramilitary troops have surrounded the plane, and no one has yet disembarked.</b>

Immigration officers have gone on board the aircraft.

On Sunday, Mr Sharif's Muslim League party (PML-N) said more than 2,000 supporters had been arrested by the Pakistan authorities, and <b>several hundred more were picked up in the Pindi-Islamabad region overnight</b>.

A provincial police official admitted to detaining several hundred "trouble-makers".

<b>Police have fired teargas shells to disperse crowds of Mr Sharif's supporters in Pindi, the BBC's M Ilyas Khan reports</b>.

<b>Almost the entire leadership of the party there has been detained by the police,</b> and dozens more were arrested while attempting to lead party workers towards the airport on Monday morning.
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A group of political supporters and journalists travelled with him on the Pakistan International Airlines flight, whose departure from London was delayed by more than one hour as a passenger was apparently taken ill.

<b>Mr Sharif's aides changed the flight at the last moment in an apparent effort to outwit the Pakistani authorities</b>

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