Ousted Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, his daughter and son-in-law were released from prison on Wednesday, hours after a top court suspended their sentences in a major corruption case that jeopardised their political career.
In a relief to the still-grieving Sharif family, a two-judge Bench of the Islamabad High Court suspended the jail sentences of the embattled former Prime Minister Sharif, his daughter Maryam and son-in-law Muhammad Safdar in the Avenfield corruption case and ordered their release.
Sharif’s younger brother and president of his Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Shehbaz Sharif and other party leaders meet the former premier at the high-security Adiala Prison before he was released, Geo News reported.
Shehbaz, along with party leaders, met Nawaz in the office of the jail superintendent.
