Yesterday, 7th July 2018, Pakistan Muslim League leader Maryam Nawaz who is the daughter of Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said that she and her father will return to the country within 10 days.
In London, Maryam Nawaz Sharif was speaking to media, a day after an accountability court in Pakistan sentenced the three-time Premier to 10 years in prison while she got a seven-year term in the Avenfield corruption related to the Sharif family’s purchase of upscale London flats.
She said that consultation was underway against the decision and the lawyers were looking at the matter from legal angles when asked whether the father-daughter duo will return within the 10-day deadline set for appeal.
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Maryam Nawaz added that “Due process will be implied against the court’s decision as the institutions in the UK already told the Pakistani institutions that no illegality was carried out.”
On the Supreme Court’s directives in the last year’s Panamagate verdict, the Avenfield reference is one of the several corruption cases filed against Sharif and his children by the anti-corruption body.
Sharif was also fined $10 million while Maryam was fined $2.6 million. Her husband and PML-N lawmaker Captain Mohammad Safdar Awan (retd) was handed a year in jail.
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