Daily Times

Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leaders and members of Sharf family met former premier Nawaz Sharif and Maryam Nawaz at Adiala Jail on Friday.

Nawaz’s family members and PML-N members had submitted a request to meet the former premier and his daughter in Adiala Jail, sources said.

Authorities have allocated Thursday for visitors to meet the father-daughter duo.

However, due to Eid holidays, nobody could meet them on that day and the Sharif family and PML-N leaders had requested that they be allowed to meet the two on Friday.

Khawaja Asif, Senator Tanvir Chauhdry and Abdul Qadir Baloch were among party leaders who arrived at the jail to meet the former premier.

Speaking to the media outside the jail, Asif said, “I have come to meet Nawaz today as we weren’t allowed to the past two days.”

“I will not talk about anything related to the presidential election or politics,” he said.

Earlier on Wednesday, sources said PML-N President Shehbaz Sharif and a few of his family members met Nawaz and Maryam in Adiala Jail. Shehbaz, Hamza Shehbaz and Nawaz’s mother met the two on the occasion of Eid-ul-Azha with special permission, sources said.

Nawaz and Maryam are currently serving their prison terms at Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi, after the former premier was sentenced to a total of 11 years in prison while his daughter was sentenced to eight years in a corruption reference in July.

Published in Daily Times, August 25^th 2018.