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Former Pakistan PM Sharif moved back to jail

ISLAMABAD, July 31, 2018 (BSS/AFP) – Pakistan’s jailed former Prime
Minister Nawaz Sharif was moved back to prison from hospital on Tuesday
evening after doctors signalled an improvement in his health, a minister
said.

Sharif was shifted to Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences(PIMS) in
Islamabad two days ago after he reportedly fell sick inside prison.

Sharif and his daughter Maryam Nawaz were jailed on July 13 after a court
sentenced them to 10 and seven years respectively over properties in Britain
which emerged in the wake of Panama Papers revelations.

“The former Prime Minister is being shifted back to Adiala jail after
doctors so advised,” Shaukat Javed, the caretaker home minister for Punjab
province, told AFP.

He said Shari wanted to go back to jail in Rawalpindi because he was unable
to carry out his daily walk, adding that the former PM had been taken to
hospital “against his will”.

Sharif, who claims he is being targeted by the country’s powerful security
establishment, is fighting for his political life after his Pakistan Muslim
League-Nawaz (PML-N) party lost an election last Wednesday to rival Pakistan
Tehreek-e-Insaf led by former cricket hero Imran Khan.

His brother Shahbaz, who heads the party now, has rejected election results
along with other parties who have demanded fresh elections and announced they
would protest against alleged election rigging.

Khan’s victory represents an end to decades of rotating leadership between
the PML-N and the Bhutto dynasty’s Pakistan Peoples Party that was punctuated
by periods of military rule.

The powerful army, which is often accused of meddling in political affairs,
ruledthe country for roughly half its history.

BSS/AFP/MRI/2300 hrs