Pakistan\u2019s incarcerated former premier Nawaz Sharif will maintain his jail room on his own as the Punjab province government on Wednesday refused to provide him a prisoner who could serve as his orderly.<\/p>\n
Speaking to media personnel in the presence of Punjab Governor Chaudhry Sarwar at the Governor House, the prisons chief said Sharif\u2019s case was highly sensitive and he could not be allowed to go outside his barracks in the prison. He said Sharif\u2019s \u201crigour had been kept within his barracks\u201d. According to the jail manual, he said, the former premier had been asked to maintain his room himself.<\/p>\n
An anti-corruption court in Pakistan on December 24 sentenced the ousted premier to seven years in jail in the Al-Azizia Steel Mills graft case but acquitted him in the Flagship Investments case, concluding a series of three court cases against the Sharif family in the high-profile Panama Papers case. The Al-Azizi Steel Mill case was about setting up steel mills in Saudi Arabia allegedly with corruption money.<\/p>\n
Sharif has been serving a seven-year jail term in Lahore\u2019s Kot Lakhpat jail in the Al-Azizia Steel Mills graft case and being a former prime minister he is entitled to better facilities including an orderly who is from prisoners.<\/p>\n
Three cases Avenfield properties case, Flagship investment case and Al-Azizia steel mills case – were launched against the Sharif family by the National Accountability Bureau on September 8, 2017 following a judgment by the Supreme Court that disqualified Sharif in the Panama Papers case in July last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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