Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam Nawaz, who have been convicted in the Avenfield Apartments case and sentenced to 10 and 7 years in jail respectively, would be arrested upon their arrival in Lahore and transported to jail via a helicopter.

Ahead of the arrival of its supreme leader Sharif, over 300 Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) workers and leaders have been detained by the police in a massive crackdown on the party activists in Lahore.

Sharif and his daughter Maryam Nawaz, who were convicted by a Pakistani court in the Avenfield Apartments case and sentenced to 10 and 7 years in jail respectively, boarded a flight on Thursday and will arrive in Lahore via Abu Dhabi at 6.15 pm (local time) on Friday.

The anti-graft body – National Accountability Bureau (NAB) – chairman Javed Iqbal has ordered taking all necessary measures to arrest Sharif and Maryam upon their arrival at the airport.

He has also formed a 16-member team to arrest them and shift them to Adiala Jail Rawalpindi after producing them at the accountability court that sentenced the father-daughter duo last week.