Clashes erupted in Pakistan Monday as former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was deported to Saudi Arabia shortly after returning home from seven years in exile hoping to campaign against the country's military ruler. Sharif was briefly taken into police custody at the Islamabad airport about 90 minutes after he arrived aboard a flight from London. He was placed on another commercial airliner about 30 minutes later for a flight to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, where he has spent his exile.He is scheduled to land in Saudi Arabia at 3:30 p.m. local time (8:30 a.m. ET/5:30 p.m. Pakistani time), government officials told CNN.
Clashes intensified following Sharif's deportation, with his supporters burning tires and blocking roads in Islamabad and the neighboring city of Rawalpindi, police and members of Sharif's party said.
His wife, Kalsoom Nawaz, has vowed to return to Pakistan in coming days to fight on her husband's behalf, she told CNN from London.
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