- Friday, April 19, 2024
By: Sarwar Alam
Pakistani authorities on Sunday (8) arrested the son–in-law of ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif, who was on Friday sentenced in absentia to 10 years in prison over a corruption ruling linked to his family’s purchase of luxury flats in London. Sharif’s daughter Maryam, seen as his chosen political heir, was sentenced to seven years in prison and her husband Muhammad Safdar was given a one-year jail term in a ruling many see as a blow to the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) party before the July 25 election. Pakistan‘s anti-corruption National Accountability Bureau (NAB) said in a statement that Muhammad Safdar handed himself…
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