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		</div><p>A tribunal has sentenced former Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif to seven years in prison for corruption.</p>
<p>His party said the decision was a “black spot” on the justice system.</p>
<p>The verdict came after Sharif was removed from power last year over corruption allegations.</p>
<p>Sharif, who was serving his third stint as prime minister, has denied any wrongdoing.</p>
<p>He is accused of possessing assets beyond his known sources of income, and was arrested after the ruling was announced.</p>
<p>He can appeal against the verdict, under which he was also fined 25 million dollars.</p>
<p>The same court acquitted him in a second case.</p>
<p>“They had to punish him and they have punished him in a false case,” said Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, a top leader of Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim League party, who served as prime minister when Sharif was removed from power last year.</p>
<p>“People will not accept this verdict,” he said.</p>
<p>Sharif was sentenced to 10 years in prison in July over the purchase of luxury apartments in London.</p>
<p>He appealed against that sentence and was released on bail in September, along with his daughter and her husband, who were co-accused in the case stemming from documents leaked from a Panama law firm.</p>
<p>The two cases on which the court ruled on Monday were related to Sharif’s foreign assets, which he insists are owned by his sons.</p>
<p>His two sons, who are currently living in London, were declared absconders by the court.</p>
<p>Shortly before the announcement of the verdict, clashes erupted between supporters of Sharif and police in Islamabad.</p>
<p>Several female supporters of Sharif were seen crying and chanting slogans.</p>
<p>Sharif’s daughter, Maryam Nawaz, has suggested he is being punished for resisting “unseen forces”, an apparent reference to the military, which has directly ruled Pakistan for half its modern history and retains a powerful role behind the scenes.</p>
<p>She wrote in a series of tweets that the people of Pakistan were standing by her father.</p>
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