Nawaz Sharif
, former Pakistani Prime Minister, was ousted by General Pervez Musharraf on Tuesday 12 October 1999 on a response to his forced 'retirement' plotted by Sharif himself.
Later, he was convicted of corruption and treason and sentenced to 14 years in prison after the coup. Musharraf pardoned him in 2000 under the exile agreement in which Sharif went to Saudi Arabia and banned from returning for 10 years.
This August, Pakistan's Supreme Court ruled that the former premier and his brother, Shahbaz Sharif, must not be stopped from returning from exile.
While persuading his brother Shahbaz staying in London, Nawaz Sharif travelled back home on a plane of the Pakistani state carrier, Pakistan International Airlines from Heathrow Airport at night September 9.
He was very excited about the landing at Islambad that ended 7 years' exile, but it turns out to be short lived. Within hours of his arrival at the motherland, he was arrested under money laundering in the VIP Lounge of Islamabad Internation Airport and again deported to Saudi Arab on a plane arranged by the Pakisitani authorities.
Source: Pakistan Deports Musharraf's Opponent Nawaz Sharif @ Bloomberg
Eyewitness: Nawaz Sharif's short return @ BBC
How the 1999 Pakistan coup unfolded @ BBC
Pakistan deports ex-PM on return @ BBC