{"id":19633,"date":"2023-10-24T16:35:25","date_gmt":"2023-10-24T11:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=19633"},"modified":"2023-10-24T16:35:25","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T11:35:25","slug":"nawaz-sharifs-sentence-in-al-azizia-reference-suspended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/nawaz-sharifs-sentence-in-al-azizia-reference-suspended\/","title":{"rendered":"Nawaz Sharif\u2019s sentence in Al-Azizia reference \u2018suspended\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Caretaker Punjab government on Tuesday \u2018suspended\u2019 sentence awarded to former prime minister and PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif in Al-Azizia reference.<\/p>\n

Nawaz Sharif was convicted by accountability courts in Avenfield and Al-Azizia references.<\/p>\n

The accountability court had awarded 10-year jail term with eight million Pounds fine to Nawaz Sharif in the Avenfield case and a 07-year sentence in Al-Azizia reference.<\/p>\n

The court also disqualified Sharif from holding public office for 10 years.<\/p>\n

However, in 2019, his sentence in the Al-Azizia reference was suspended by the Lahore High Court (LHC) on medical grounds. He was then permitted to fly to London on medical grounds.<\/p>\n

Sources privy to the development said that the caretaker Punjab cabinet suspended the sentence of Nawaz Sharif under Criminal Procedural Code Section 401.<\/p>\n

According to Section 401 of the Criminal Procedural Code, the government reserves the right to suspend the sentence of the convict.<\/p>\n

Read more:\u00a0Nawaz Sharif says \u2018no wish to take revenge\u2019, seeks support of all \u2018constitutional institutions\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The former three-time premier landed in Pakistan on Saturday (October 21) after ending his self-exile of four years. He was accorded a warm welcome by the PML-N and addressed a huge public gathering at Minar-e-Pakistan to reveal his plan of steering Pakistan out of crises.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Caretaker Punjab government on Tuesday \u2018suspended\u2019 sentence awarded to former prime minister and PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif in Al-Azizia reference. Nawaz Sharif was convicted by accountability courts in Avenfield and Al-Azizia references. The accountability court had awarded 10-year jail term with eight million Pounds fine to Nawaz Sharif in the Avenfield case and a 07-year […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":19634,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2,147],"tags":[10138,10137,255],"class_list":["post-19633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-pakistan","category-politics","tag-al-azizia-reference","tag-caretaker-punjab-government","tag-nawaz-sharif"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}