Nawaz Sharif booted out of Pakistan (again).
In 1999, General Pervez Musharraf executed a bloodless coup against then Pakistani PM Nawaz Sharif. Sent into exile, Sharif was supposed to remain out of Pakistan for ten years. A Pakistani judiciary finding its own identity (the Judicial branch in Pakistan has generally been sympathetic to whomever was in power, and not really independent) recently overturned that legal ruling, and set the stage for this morning's circus in Islamabad:

Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's attempt to return to Pakistan after seven years in exile ended quickly Monday as police ordered him to board a flight for Saudi Arabia, government officials said.

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 a short time later for a flight to the Saudi Arabian city of Jeddah, where he arrived at approximately 3 p.m. local time (8 a.m. ET/5 p.m. Pakistani time), Pakistani government officials and a Sharif representative told CNN.

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The two-time former premier was deported despite a landmark Supreme Court decision last month granting him the right to enter Pakistan and urging authorities not to obstruct his return.

"It is a violation of the constitution, and it is a violation of the court order under which Nawaz Sharif was allowed to arrive and stay in Pakistan," Sadique ul-Farooq, a close aide to Sharif said according to an AP report.

Sharif's brother Shahbaz Sharif, also charged with corruption, said their party will challenge the deportation in court, an AP report said.

"This will be counted as the blackest day in Pakistan's history," he said on Geo TV. "I do not have words to describe my grief. This is a tragedy for Pakistan that a dictator is disregarding the people."