The interim government of Pakistan’s Punjab province on Tuesday suspended former prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s seven-year sentence in the Al-Azizia case while two separate courts confirmed his bail in three different corruption cases. Sharif was convicted by accountability courts in the Avenfield and Al-Azizia references. This means he is now eligible to run in the next general elections.
Earlier, the accountability court had awarded a 10-year jail term and an eight-million-pound penalty to Nawaz in the Avenfield case and a seven-year sentence in the Al-Azizia reference. The court had also disqualified him from holding public office for the next ten years.
In 2019, his sentence in the Al-Azizia reference was suspended by the Lahore High Court (LHC), following which he flew to London on medical grounds.
Since then, he lived in exile in London. But after his brother Shehbaz Sharif became prime minister, ousting Imran Khan, it paved the way for his safe return to Islamabad.
Nawaz Sharif returned to Pakistan on Saturday.
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