Every person has a natural right to enter and live in his/her own country. One may be deported from a foreign country to one’s own country but one may not be deported from one’s own country to a foreign country. That is simple international law. Pakistan’s 1973 Constitution enshrines it in Article 15, which is what the Pakistani Supreme Court has relied upon to say Nawaz Sharif has a right to return to Pakistan. The 1966 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights says the same thing. General Musharraf along with his friends in the USA, UK and Saudi Arabia have made a mistake. The Pakistani Supreme Court ordered the Government to produce Sharif before them. Instead they sent him back to Saudi Arabia and claimed it was a deportation.
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