巴基斯坦总理谢里夫因贪腐被勒令下台

Pakistan's Supreme Court has disqualified Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif from holding public office and ordered him to step down immediately.

The court convicted Sharif on charges of amassing overseas assets, concealing them and living beyond his means.

The five-member panel of judges in its unanimous ruling Friday also ordered anti-corruption authorities to swiftly open investigations into Sharif's daughter, Maryam Nawaz, her husband and Pakistani Finance Minister Ishaq Dar. Dar has also been banned from holding public office and ordered to step down.

The charges against the Sharif family and others stemmed from leaked financial documents known as the Panama Papers, which listed the prime minister's children as holders of offshore bank accounts and posh overseas property.

The documents also named hundreds of other Pakistani citizens.