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		</div><h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Pakistan&#8217;s three-time Prime Minister sent back to jail after a second corruption conviction in 12 months</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Nawaz Sharif is jailed for seven years for corruption amid crackdown by new PM Imran Khan</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Sharif, 68, has been taken into custody and will be sent to a prison in Lahore</strong></span></h6>
<h6><strong><span style="color: #000000;">The former Pakistani leader has been sentenced to seven years and fined $25m</span></strong></h6>
<h6><strong><span style="color: #000000;">Monday&#8217;s conviction centred on family businesses in the Middle East</span></strong></h6>
<h6><strong><span style="color: #000000;">His second conviction stemming from a corruption investigation spurred by the Panama Papers leak, and comes as new Prime Minister Imran Khan has vowed to tackle endemic corruption in Pakistan</span></strong></h6>
<h6><strong><span style="color: #000000;">It is the latest conviction in a series of allegations which saw him ousted from power last year</span></strong></h6>
<h6><strong><span style="color: #000000;">The former leader was jailed in July in a different corruption case but bailed on appeal when the Islamabad High Court suspended his 10-year sentence in Sept</span></strong></h6>
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<h6 id="google_ads_iframe_/424397508/dm.dailymailtvhouse_0__container__"><strong><img class="" src="https://i2.wp.com/konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Nawaz-Sharif-3.jpg?zoom=1.25&;ssl=1&;w=450" alt="Nawaz Sharif 3" width="633" height="474" /> Back to jail convicted for corruption in office: Former Pakistani leader Nawaz Sharif [photo], has been sentenced to seven years in prison for corruption</strong></h6>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">Former Pakistani leader Nawaz Sharif has been sentenced to seven years in prison for corruption, the latest conviction in a series of allegations which saw him ousted from power last year.<br />
Sharif, a three-time prime minister, has denied all the charges against him and claims he is being targeted by the country&#8217;s powerful security establishment.<br />
Monday&#8217;s conviction, centred on family businesses in the Middle East, is his second stemming from a corruption investigation spurred by the Panama Papers leak, and comes as new Prime Minister Imran Khan has vowed to tackle endemic corruption in Pakistan.<br />
After his second corruption within the year, the 68-year-old was taken into custody and will be sent to a prison in Lahore, and was also fined $25million, according to state-run Pakistan Television.</p>
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<h6 class="mobile-gallery-icon"><strong><img class="" src="https://i2.wp.com/konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Nawaz-Sharif-sentecng-protests-2.jpg?zoom=1.25&;ssl=1&;w=450" alt="Nawaz Sharif sentecng protests 2" width="580" height="403" /></strong><strong>Supporters of Sharif&#8217;s Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N] party, seen scuffling with security forces outside the courtroom, protest sentencing of the three-time prime minister </strong></h6>
<div class="mobile-gallery-icon">Security was tight at the court, with some scuffles breaking out between Sharif&#8217;s Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supporters and security forces, who responded with tear gas.<br />
Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, who succeeded Sharif as prime minister last year, said the PML-N would appeal the verdict but would &#8216;not resort to violence&#8217;.<br />
&#8216;The people of Pakistan and history will not accept this decision,&#8217; he told reporters in Islamabad.<br />
The Supreme Court disqualified Sharif from politics for life over the allegations last year, and directed an anti-corruption body to investigate three different charges regarding his family&#8217;s properties and businesses.<br />
The months-long saga has seen him appear before accountability courts 165 times since September 2017, according to the English-language Dawn newspaper.</div>
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<h6 class="mobile-gallery-icon"><img class="" src="https://i0.wp.com/konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Imran-Khan-2.jpg?zoom=1.25&;ssl=1&;w=450" alt="Imran Khan 2" width="580" height="434" /><strong>Pakistan&#8217;s new Prime Minister Imran Khan [photo] has vowed to tackle endemic corruption in Pakistan. Sharif&#8217;s latest conviction was the eight high profile conviction in he crusade against publc corruption</strong></h6>
<h6 class="mobile-gallery-icon"><strong><img class="" src="https://i1.wp.com/konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Nawaz-Sharif-4.jpg?zoom=1.25&;ssl=1&;w=450" alt="Nawaz Sharif 4" width="580" height="348" />Monday&#8217;s conviction for ex-PM Nawaz Sharif [photo], centres on his family businesses in the Middle East, is his second stemming from a corruption investigation spurred by the Panama Papers leak</strong></h6>
<div class="mobile-gallery-icon">In July this year, he was convicted in one case revolving around family properties in London, and sentenced to 10 years in prison.<br />
He was in London at the time as his wife received cancer treatment, but returned to Pakistan days ahead of the election, only to be arrested and imprisoned on arrival.<br />
He was released in September after a court suspended his sentence pending an appeal hearing.<br />
Sharif has been prime minister three times but power has been a rough ride. He was first expelled from office in 1993 on suspicion of corruption. He won an election in 1997, only to be ousted and exiled after a military coup in 1999. He returned to Pakistan in 2007 and took power once more in 2013 until his ousting last year.<br />
His two sons, Hassan and Hussain, who are not in Pakistan, were declared absconders by the court.<br />
Sharif was arrested inside the court and taken to a jail in nearby Rawalpindi. He is expected to be transferred to a prison in Lahore on Tuesday.</div>
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Former Pakistan strongman, Nawaz Sharif is jailed for seven years and fined $25million for corruption amid crackdown by new PM Imran Khan
