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Sharif returns to jail after bail expires

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Islamabad: Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, sentenced to seven years in prison in a corruption case, has returned to jail after being out on bail for six weeks owing to illness.
The Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) leader left his Jati Umra residence in Lahore for the Kot Lakhpat jail in a procession of hundreds of PML-N workers led by his daughter Maryam Nawaz around 8.30 p.m. on Tuesday, Dawn online reported.
He was scheduled to reach the jail by sunset, but eventually arrived past midnight after obtaining a special permit to enter the prison later than expected.
Sharif’s convoy was surrounded by people chanting slogans and throwing flower petals onto the car in which he and his daughter were travelling.
“Nawaz Sharif came along with a rally to the jail and he reached the jail premises at around 12.20 a.m,” an official at the Kot Lakhpat prison, Ahsan Ullah, told Efe news.
“The jail authorities had gone to his residence in the evening to take him under custody but they refused,” Ullah said.
Sharif later thanked his supporters for accompanying him to jail at midnight, saying: “I do not have words to thank you for the passionate way in which you welcomed me.”
He said that their prayers would release him from the “dark prison cell”, in a video shared by his daughter on Twitter. (IANS)

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