Sharif leaves for UK to see his ailing wife
islamabad — Pakistan’s ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif on Tuesday left for London along with his daughter, a day after he was granted a week-long exemption from appearing in the court for cases linked to the Panama Papers scandal.
The three cases were registered by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on September 8 against the 67-year-old Sharif and his family in the Accountability Court Islamabad, following a verdict by the Supreme Court in the Panama Papers case.
The accountability court on Monday granted exemption to Sharif from December 5 to 12 while maintaining earlier exemption for his daughter Maryam from November 15 to December 15 to let them go to London to be with Sharif ’s ailing wife Kulsoom, who is receiving cancer treatment there.
Kulsoom, who is in her midsixties is suffering from throat cancer and has undergone three surgeries in the UK so far.
She was diagnosed with earlystage lymphoma in August and according to doctors her cancer is curable.
However, Sharif’s son-in-law and lawmaker Muhammad Safdar appeared in the court on Tuesday as NAB presented a witness Tayyab Ahmad, an employee of a private bank, to record the statement.
The court also accepted a request by Safdar for a one- week exemption from appearing in the court. — PTI