Nawaz Sharif and daughter Maryam shifted to Adiala jail
July 14, 2018  08:07
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Pakistans former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam were shifted to Adiala jail in Rawalpindi on Friday after they were arrested on their return to the country following the conviction in one of the three corruption cases against the powerful political family, weeks before the July 25 polls.

Sharif and Maryam were shifted to Adiala jail in separate armoured vehicles escorted by police.

According to jail manual, they can be medically examined at the jail hospital.

Maryam is expected to be moved later to Sihala Rest House which has been declared as sub-jail.

The plane carrying Sharif, the supremo of the Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz, and Maryam landed at Lahores Allama Iqbal Airport at 9:15 IST, nearly three hours late from the scheduled arrival.

According to an airport official, the father-daughter duo surrendered before a team of the countrys anti-graft body The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) without any resistance.

A special plane later carried Sharif and Maryam to Islamabad. The plane landed at New Islamabad International airport in Islamabad.

The two were convicted on July 6 in the Avenfield properties case linked to the Sharif familys ownership of four luxury flats in London.

Both Sharif, 68, and Maryam, 44, have been sentenced by an accountability court to 10 and 7 years in prison respectively.
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