Former Pakistani PM Abbasi arrested on corruption charges
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Pakistan's anti-corruption agency arrested former Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Thursday, a spokesman for the agency, the National Accountability Board (NAB), said. 

He gave no details on the grounds for the arrest but a copy of the arrest warrant shared by Abbasi's PML-N party indicated that he was accused of "corruption and corrupt practices." 

Abbasi, who served for less than a year following the resignation of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in 2017, was arrested while on his way to a news conference in the eastern city of Lahore. 

"They said they were from the NAB and took away Shahid Khaqan Abbasi with them," Ahsan Iqbal, a senior PML-N parliamentarian told a television station. 

Last year, the NAB ordered an inquiry into both Abbasi and Sharif over a liquefied natural gas terminal project. Sharif is serving a seven-year sentence after being convicted in a separate corruption case. 

(Cover: Then Pakistani Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi addresses the 72nd United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York, U.S., September 21, 2017. /Reuters Photo)

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Source(s): Reuters