LAHORE/LONDON: Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, his daughter Maryam Nawaz and son-in-law retired captain Mohammed Safdar were released from Rawalpindi’s Adiala jail on parole hours after Nawaz Sharif’s ailing wife Begum Kulsoom Nawaz passed away in a London hospital on Tuesday.
All three were released on a 12-hour parole vide an application filed by PML-N president Shahbaz Sharif, which is extended till the burial of Begum Kulsoom at Jati Umra on Friday afternoon, on an order of the Punjab home department and were escorted by police to the Nur Khan airbase from where they were flown to Lahore.
Three rooms inside Jati Umra have been declared a sub-jail.Sharif upon arrival at Jati Umra.
Shahbaz Sharif, PML-N president and leader of the opposition in the National Assembly, on Wednesday morning departed for London on a Qatar Airways flight to attend her funeral prayers at the Regent’s Park mosque on Thursday before bringing her body to Lahore.
Family sources told media that Kulsoom’s sons would not accompany her body to Lahore though her daughter, Asma, and grandson, Zikriya Sharif, would go with the casket to Pakistan.
Party sources in Lahore confirmed to the media that Begum Kulsoom would be laid to rest at the Jati Umra residence of the Sharif family. “A PIA flight carrying the body will arrive here on Friday morning and she is likely to be laid to rest the same day beside the grave of her father-in-law Mian Sharif at Jati Umra,” they said.