Rawalpindi (July 20, 2018): Former Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif, who is in Adyala Jail along with his daughter in the corruption sentence by NAB Court has decided to carry on social welfare work in Jail.
According to the sources, Nawaz Sharif has asked for the prisoners’ list from the jail administration, who are unable to pay their fine.
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Nawaz Sharif will pay their fine himself to get them released, said sources.
Nawaz Sharif has announced to fix shades out of the barracks of the prisoners.
The former Premiere has ordered his personal staff to complete social welfare work in the jail as soon as possible.
Earlier on Thursday, Pakistan Mulsim League Leaders’ and the members of Sharif family held first meeting with former PM Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam Nawaz in Adyala Jail after their arrest.
Pervez Rasheed, Ayaz Sadiq, PML-N president Shehbaz Sharif and Hamza Shahbaz, Governor Sindh, Muhammad Zubair, Raja Zafarul Haq, Khurram Dastagir, Sardar Mehtab Abbasi, Maryam Aurangzeb and others met the former PM.
Later on, addressing media outside Adyala Jail, Senator Pervaiz Rasheed lamented that it was the first time that Maryam Nawaz met her father after being jailed.
Rasheed stated that it is with a heavy heart that he informs the media that today is the first time the father-daughter duo met — a fact which he termed was against jail norms.
The senator claimed that the incarcerated Sharif family is in the exact same spirits as they were before being jailed.
Meanwhile, the former information minister Marriyum Aurangzeb conveyed message of Nawaz Sharif while addressing media to the people and asked them to vote for PML-N. She said, “Your Quaid and his daughter are brave.”
On the other hand, Nawaz Sharif has been given a place for walk in the jail, whereas he has also been provided a cook and doctor.
Aurangzeb also said both Nawaz and Maryam were in solitary confinement in their cells. “All the news items stating that the duo has food together are false,” she claimed. She went on to say Maryam had been allowed to meet Nawaz for 15 minutes and her husband for half an hour on Sunday [July 15].
Jail Administration Cancels Lawyers’ Meeting With Nawaz
Earlier 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 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.
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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