December 15, 2024 06:05 (IST)

Make this your homepage

South Asia / Southeast Asia / China

Pushpa 2 stampede: Allu Arjun walks out of jail, actor's lawyer slams delay in release | Donald Trump intends to end 'inconvenient' and 'very costly' Daylight Saving Time | Suchir Balaji: Indian-origin former OpenAI researcher found dead at US apartment | Bengaluru techie suicide: Karnataka Police issues summons to wife Nikita, her family members | French President Macron appoints centrist leader Francois Bayrou as new Prime Minister | Congress always prioritised personal interest over Constitution: Rajnath Singh | Jaishankar calls attack on Hindus in Bangladesh 'a source of concern' | Allu Arjun arrested over woman's death in stampede during Pushpa 2 premiere show | RBI receives bomb threat in Russian language, case filed | UP teenager kills mother, lives with body for 5 days

Nawaz Sharif handed over 10 years jail term by Pakistan court

India Blooms News Service | @banglalivenews | Jul 06, 2018, at 05:27 pm

#Abettment #NawazSharif #Pakistan #PakistanPM

Islamabad, July 6 (IBNS): A Pakistani court on Friday sentenced for ten years former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, announcing the verdict in the Avenfield corruption reference related to luxury flats in London, filed by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB).

According to reports, he has been handed over the jail term by an NAB court for owning assets beyond income and 1 year for not cooperating with NAB.

"The sentences will run concurrently so he will serve 10 years in jail," Dawn News reported.

The Prime Minster's daughter Maryam Nawaz has been awarded 7 years of jail for abetment and 1 year for non-cooperation.

"Son-in-law Captain Safdar has been given 1 year jail time for also not cooperating with NAB," reported the newspaper.

Apart from the jail term, Nawaz has been handed a fine of 8 million pounds.

The court has handed over 2m pounds fine by the court.

According to DawnNewsTV, the Sharif family, along with former finance minister Ishaq Dar, are gathered at the Avenfield flats in London to watch the verdict unfold live.

Nawaz, Maryam, Hassan, and Hussain are currently in London.

Captain Safdar is currently present in the country but remained absent from the court.

Support Our Journalism

We cannot do without you.. your contribution supports unbiased journalism

IBNS is not driven by any ism- not wokeism, not racism, not skewed secularism, not hyper right-wing or left liberal ideals, nor by any hardline religious beliefs or hyper nationalism. We want to serve you good old objective news, as they are. We do not judge or preach. We let people decide for themselves. We only try to present factual and well-sourced news.