Lahore, Nov 22: Pakistan’s former prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s mother Begum Shamim Akhtar died in London on Sunday. She was 91. Begum Akhtar was not well for the last one month or so, according to the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) party sources.
‘On Sunday she breathed her last in London,’ PML-N deputy secretary-general Attaullah Tarar said. She had travelled to London in February last and had been living with Nawaz and her grandchildren.
Tarar said the body of Begum Akhtar is likely to be brought back to Lahore on Monday and buried next to the grave of her husband Mian Sharif at the Jati Umra Raiwind residence of the Sharif family.
Tarar said an application is being filed with the authorities concerned for the release of Nawaz’s younger brother and PML-N President Shahbaz Sharif on parole to attend the last rites of his mother.
PML-N supreme leader Nawaz Sharif, who has been declared ‘absconder’ by a Pakistani court, is unlikely to return to the country to attend the last rites of his mother. “Nawaz would attend funeral prayers of his mother in London before the body is taken to Lahore,” a senior PML-N leader told PTI. (PTI)
