I am returning to Pakistan come what may: Nawaz Sharif

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Nawaz Sharif addresses press conference in London.
Nawaz Sharif addresses press conference in London.

Nawaz Sharif is addressing a press conference in London, in which he has promised to return to Pakistan even if it means incarceration or capital punishment.

Saying the accountability judge who heard the Avenfield reference has exonerated him from having indulged in any corruption, he has asked if justice has been served in his case.

"Is there any Pakistani who was asked to present three generations of his family for accountability only to find that no corruption had been done?" he asked.

"The judgement had already been written," he alleged. "It was only changed and read out five times," he said, in apparent reference to the number of adverse judgements passed against him over the past year.

"The problem here is that they have found two different standards of justice: one standard is for me, and the other is for their ladlas [favoured people]."

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