Pakistan's Ex-PM Sharif returns to prison after furlough

Pakistan's Ex-PM Sharif returns to prison after furlough
In this file photo, former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif looks out the window of his plane after attending a ceremony to inaugurate the M9 motorway between Karachi and Hyderabad, Pakistan Feb. 3, 2017. (REUTERS)
Updated 17 September 2018
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Pakistan's Ex-PM Sharif returns to prison after furlough

Pakistan's Ex-PM Sharif returns to prison after furlough
  • Sharif, his daughter Maryam, and son-in-law Safdar were released on parole last week to attend the funeral of Sharif’s wife, who died in a London hospital
  • They were flown back from the eastern city of Lahore Monday to the capital Islamabad then taken to Adiala prison amid tight security arrangements

ISLAMABAD: A provincial government in Pakistan has returned former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, as well as his daughter and son in-law, to prison in the garrison city of Rawalpindi.
Sharif and his two relatives were released on parole last week to attend the funeral of Sharif’s wife, who died in a London hospital.
They were flown back from the eastern city of Lahore Monday to the capital Islamabad then taken to Adiala prison amid tight security arrangements.
Kulsoom Nawaz was suffering from throat cancer. She died last Tuesday at the age of 68.
Sharif and his daughter and son-in-law are serving ten, seven and one-year sentences, respectively, in a corruption case. The Supreme Court last year disqualified Sharif from holding office and later an anti-graft tribunal convicted him and his relatives.