Behind bars for being daughter of Nawaz Sharif: Maryam

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Pakistan Muslim league-Nawaz leader Maryam Nawaz, who was arrested along with her father Nawaz Sharif upon their arrival in lahore, has said that she is in prison

for being the daughter of a brave man. The National Accountability Bureau officials took ousted Prime Minister Sharif, 68, and Maryam, 44, into custody in the Avenfield case, shortly after their arrival at lahore airport from london via Abu Dhabi on Friday. They were shifted to the Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi.

In an emotional audio message recorded before going to jail, Maryam appealed to the nation to pray for her mother’s health. “You all know that I left my mother in a critical condition. I went to london to meet her along with my father Nawaz Sharif,” she said.

Maryam’s mother Kulsoom Nawaz is on a ventilator after suffering a cardiac arrest in london where she is undergoing treatment for throat cancer.

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