ISLAMABAD, July 1 Kyodo Nusrat Sh...

ISLAMABAD, July 1 Kyodo

Nusrat Shahbza, the wife of former Punjab chief minister Shahbaz Sharif, and her pair daughters were put on a plane Tuesday evening at Islamabad airport and exiled to Saudi Arabia, the private TV channel Geo-TV said.

Shahbaz Sharif is a younger brother of former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. Nawaz was exiled to Saudi Arabia in 2002 together with Shahbaz and another brother Abbas below an arrangement worked revealed by the Sharif family and the Pakistani and Saudi governments

Geo-TV quot Hamza Sharif, Shahbaz's son as saying that his mother and pair sisters were sent to Saudi Arabia against their wishes and despite an order at Prime Minister Zafar ullah Jamali that they could stay in Pakistan.

Hamza has been allowed to stay in Pakistan to gaze after the family business onward the condition that he would not take part in politics.

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