Three-time PM was forced to sleep on floor in Adiala: Shehbaz
Nawaz Sharif returned to Pakistan for the sake of country's people
ROJHAN (Dunya News) – Former Punjab CM and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) president Shahbaz Sharif on Wednesday said that the three-times elected PM Nawaz Sharif was forced to sleep on the floor on his first night at the Adiala jail.
Addressing a public gathering in Rojhan, he said that the man who made Pakistan first Muslim nuclear state knew he was going to land in jail but even then he returned to the country for the sake of masses.
The PML-N president said that the party supremo eliminated loadshedding from the country, built motorways across the country and also issued health cards to the people but he was jailed for the remarkable work he has done for the people.
Shehbaz went on to say that Nawaz Sharif was the man who stabilized the country’s economy.
Earlier on Monday, the PML-N president wrote a letter to caretaker Punjab government seeking better facilities for former prime minister Nawaz Sharif at Adiala Jail.
Shehbaz had asked the authorities to ensure continuous provision of medicines and medical examination to Nawaz Sharif from his personal doctor.
While responding to the demand of former Punjab chief minister Caretaker Punjab Law Minister Zia Haider said that Nawaz Sharif has been provided facilities already made available to prisoners by PML-N Punjab government for the last 24-year stints.
Haider asserted that it was onus of PML-N government to take measures towards improving infrastructure and availability of basic jail facilities where they failed to do the needful.
He, however, told Shehbaz Sharif that measures by caretaker government were on to provide proper facilities to make jail conditions better.
It is pertinent here to mention that former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, Maryam Nawaz and Captain Safdar were convicted and sentenced to prison in absentia for ten years, seven years and one year respectively, in Avenfield verdict that is likely to further disrupt an already chaotic campaign for national elections this month.
Maryam Nawaz and Captain (r) Safdar, who were candidates for the forthcoming general elections were also disqualified from contesting elections for 10 years each.
The sentence and a fine of 8 million pounds, or $10.6 million, came almost a year after Supreme Court removed Sharif from office and less than five months after the court barred him from holding office for life.
Nawaz Sharif was convicted under section 9(a)(5) of the NAB ordinance.
The case stemmed from the Panama Papers leak that disclosed expensive and undeclared property owned by the Sharif family in London.
Safdar was arrested by the NAB authoritites in Rawalpindi on July 9 while Nawaz Sharif and Maryam were taken into custody by the officials few minutes after their flight landed at Lahore’s Allama Iqbal International Airport on Friday night and shifted to Adiala Jail.
Accountability Court Judge Muhammad Bashir, who was present in the jail, issued warrants for imprisonment for Nawaz Sharif and Maryam Nawaz. A team of doctors conducted the medical checkup of both the accused and declared them fit.
Nawaz Sharif and Maryam Nawaz were then shifted to B-Class facility in Adiala Jail.
