Parole for Sharif to attend funeral

The jailed former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, his daughter Maryam and sonin-law Retd. Captain Mohammad Safdar will be granted parole to attend the funeral of Begum Kulsoom, a media report said yesterday.

The three will be granted parole from the time of Kulsoom’s funeral prayers until her burial, Geo TV reported, citing the Interior Ministry sources.

Sharif, Maryam and Safdar are currently serving jail terms in Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi after being convicted by an accountability court in a corruption case in July.

According to sources, the Sharif family has decided to bring back Kulsoom’s body to Pakistan, it said.