LAHORE – Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz president Shehbaz Sharif and his family visited former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam Nawaz at a Rawalpindi prison on Wednesday
Both the father-daughter duo are serving their prison sentence in relation to Avenfield properties case.
Geo News reported that the members of Sharif family had taken special permission to meet the jailed PML-N leaders.
The family members included Nawaz’s mother, Shehbaz Sharif, Hamza Shehbaz, Suleman Shehbaz, sources mentioned.
On Monday, the Islamabad High Court delayed the verdict it reserved on the appeals filed by Nawaz Sharif, Maryam Nawaz and son-in-law Capt (retd) Safdar challenging the Avenfield reference verdict against them.
The court said that “at this stage, we are not inclined to decide these petitions and they shall remain pending and fixed along with the appeals. In case there is a delay in deciding of the appeals then the petitioners shall be at liberty to press these petitions.”
They are currently serving their prison terms at Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi, after the former premier was sentenced to a total of 11 years in prison while his daughter was given eight years’ sentence in a corruption reference earlier in July. Capt (r) Safdar Awan, the husband of Maryam, has also been imprisoned at the same jail for not cooperating with NAB, and aiding and abetting Nawaz and Maryam.
