Sharif's brief return, swift departure
Updated on 10 September 2007
He barely left the tarmac.
As supporters clashed with police outside Islamabad airport - Pakistan's former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was thrown out of the country - after a short-lived attempt to return from exile.
Mr Sharif, who's now in Saudi Arabia, arrived in Islamabad this morning vowing to end the military rule of General Musharraf - who ousted him in a coup eight years ago.
But his plans for a triumphal motorcade were abruptly thwarted as paramilitary police surrounded his plane, arrested him, and deported him.
Inigo Gilmore reports.
