Being punished for turning the course of Pakistan's 70-year history: Sharif

Pakistan's deposed prime minister Nawaz Sharif today said he has been punished because he tried to turn the course of Pakistan's 70-year history.

Sharif was sentenced in absentia to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment by an anti-graft court in Pakistan in one of the three corruption cases against him in the Panama Papers scandal, dealing a huge blow to his party ahead of the elections on July 25.

Addressing a press conference in London along with his daughter Maryam, Sharif said, "I promise that I will continue this struggle until Pakistanis are not free of the chains that they are kept in for saying the truth."