Sharif complains no bed or AC in jail, meets lawyers
Omer Farooq Khan TNN
Islamabad: TOI 15.07.2018
Deposed Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif was not allotted an ‘A’ class category cell in Rawalpindi’s Adiala Central Jail, while his daughter Maryam Nawaz was kept in the women’s barrack of the same prison, a day after the duo was arrested upon their arrival in Pakistan to face detention in a corruption case.
On July 6, Pakistan’s anticorruption court had sentenced Sharif to 10 years and Maryam to seven years in prison, stating that they had failed to disclose how their family had bought four luxury apartments in London. Maryam’s husband Muhammad Safdar was also sentenced to one-year imprisonment.
The case, known as the Avenfield Reference, was one of the three corruption cases filed against Sharif and his children by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), Pakistan’s anticorruption watchdog, on the Supreme Court’s orders in the Panama Papers case verdict that had disqualified the former PM from office on July 28 last year.
On Saturday, Sharif met with his legal team in the prison, and the meeting, according to sources, lasted for few minutes in the presence of the jail superintendent.
During the meeting with his lawyers, sources confided, Nawaz complained about the lack of facilities in the ‘B’ class category room where he has been kept. According to media reports, Sharif stated that there was only a mattress and a fan in the room. Nawaz complained that there was no bed, air-conditioning and the washroom was unclean and in a despicable condition.
Maryam, however, claimed that she declined better facilities at Adiala Jail. A letter posted on social media stated that Maryam had been asked to submit an application to the jail superintendent for better facilities but she turned it down.
Following Sharif and his daughter’s arrest, the government issued a notification, stating that due to security reasons hearing of the two remaining corruption references — Al Azizia Steel Mills/Hill Metal Establishment in Jeddah and offshore companies, including Flagship Investment Ltd and 15 other companies, will be held in Adiala Jail where Sharif and Maryum have been incarcerated.
Meanwhile, around 1500 PML-N workers and leaders, including Shahid Khaqan Abbasi and Shahbaz Sharif, were booked on Saturday under terrorism and other charges for taking out a rally in Lahore in support of Sharif. More than 50 people, including 20 policemen, were injured during clashes in the PML-N rally on Friday. They have been booked for violating the law, attacking policemen and rangers, causing damage to the public property and hurling abuses at judiciary and military.
TOUGH TIMES: Nawaz Sharif
Omer Farooq Khan TNN
Islamabad: TOI 15.07.2018
Deposed Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif was not allotted an ‘A’ class category cell in Rawalpindi’s Adiala Central Jail, while his daughter Maryam Nawaz was kept in the women’s barrack of the same prison, a day after the duo was arrested upon their arrival in Pakistan to face detention in a corruption case.
On July 6, Pakistan’s anticorruption court had sentenced Sharif to 10 years and Maryam to seven years in prison, stating that they had failed to disclose how their family had bought four luxury apartments in London. Maryam’s husband Muhammad Safdar was also sentenced to one-year imprisonment.
The case, known as the Avenfield Reference, was one of the three corruption cases filed against Sharif and his children by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), Pakistan’s anticorruption watchdog, on the Supreme Court’s orders in the Panama Papers case verdict that had disqualified the former PM from office on July 28 last year.
On Saturday, Sharif met with his legal team in the prison, and the meeting, according to sources, lasted for few minutes in the presence of the jail superintendent.
During the meeting with his lawyers, sources confided, Nawaz complained about the lack of facilities in the ‘B’ class category room where he has been kept. According to media reports, Sharif stated that there was only a mattress and a fan in the room. Nawaz complained that there was no bed, air-conditioning and the washroom was unclean and in a despicable condition.
Maryam, however, claimed that she declined better facilities at Adiala Jail. A letter posted on social media stated that Maryam had been asked to submit an application to the jail superintendent for better facilities but she turned it down.
Following Sharif and his daughter’s arrest, the government issued a notification, stating that due to security reasons hearing of the two remaining corruption references — Al Azizia Steel Mills/Hill Metal Establishment in Jeddah and offshore companies, including Flagship Investment Ltd and 15 other companies, will be held in Adiala Jail where Sharif and Maryum have been incarcerated.
Meanwhile, around 1500 PML-N workers and leaders, including Shahid Khaqan Abbasi and Shahbaz Sharif, were booked on Saturday under terrorism and other charges for taking out a rally in Lahore in support of Sharif. More than 50 people, including 20 policemen, were injured during clashes in the PML-N rally on Friday. They have been booked for violating the law, attacking policemen and rangers, causing damage to the public property and hurling abuses at judiciary and military.
TOUGH TIMES: Nawaz Sharif
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