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Legal Team Reaches Adiala Jail To Meet Nawaz, Maryam

Islamabad (July 21, 2018): Five member legal team has reached Adiala to meet former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam Nawaz, where the duo is currently serving their prison sentence following their conviction in a corruption reference.

According to details, counsels Khawaja Harris and Amjad Pervez were allowed to enter the jail premises after checking their names in the list.

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Sources told that the lawyers will exchange views over the petition that was filed in Islamabad High Court (IHC) against Avenfield decision while they will also discuss the issue of transferring Al-Azizia Steel Mills and Flagship Investments references.

On Thursday, authorities of the Adyala Jail cancelled a pre-arranged meeting between the lawyers and former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam.

The legal team, which includes Khwaja Harris, Saad Hashmi, Zafir Khan and Amjad Pervaiz were reportedly conferring with jail authorities for the past two days after permission was denied on July 18.

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Deposed prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s legal team was informed that they would be able to meet their clients at 11am today, but received a call from the jail superintendent while they were on the way to Adiala prison informing them of cancellation.

The lawyers were told by the jail authorities that they would be informed of a new time for the meeting later.Ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif was sentenced to a total of 11 years in prison and slapped a £8 million fine while his daughter Maryam was sentenced to eight years with a £2 million fine in the Avenfield corruption reference by an accountability court earlier this month.

On July 13, Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam Nawaz were arrested and shifted to jail after they landed at Lahore’s Allama Iqbal International Airport.

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Nawaz Sharif was sentenced to 11 years in prison by National Accountability Bureau (NAB) court over his family’s purchase of luxury apartments in London, whereas, his daughter Maryam was sentenced to seven years in prison.

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On July 09, Captain Retired Safdar, the son in law of former Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif shifted to Adyala Jail.

A NAB team reached the Federal Judicial Complex where it presented the convict in an accountability court.

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Earlier on, National Accountability Bureau (NAB) took Captain (retd) Muhammad Safdar into custody in Rawalpindi.

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The Avenfield reference is one of the three corruption references, filed by the National Accountability Bureau(NAB) on orders of the Supreme Court of Pakistan (SCP), which disqualified Nawaz Sharif, ousting him from the premiership and finding him guilty in the Panama Paper case verdict.

The verdict came at a time when Nawaz Sharif and daughter Maryam Nawaz Sharif were in London to see Begum Kulsom Nawaz Sharif who has been undergoing treatment for cancer.

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