Zaheer Babar, Author at Daily Hampshire Gazette

Police officers are deployed at Lahore airport in Pakistan, Friday, July 13, 2018. Disgraced ex-Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will be whisked away by helicopter to the federal capital of Islamabad when he returns Friday to Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore from London to face a 10-year prison sentence on corruption charges. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

74 people die in election violence ahead of Sharif’s return

by Zaheer Babar Associated Press, and Abdul Sattar Associated PressJuly 13, 2018

LAHORE, Pakistan — The deadliest attack in Pakistan’s troubled election campaign killed 70 people, including a candidate, in southwestern Baluchistan province on Friday ahead of the arrest of disgraced former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif upon his…

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74 people die in election violence ahead of Sharif’s return

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