LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) has requested the authorities to grant former prime minister Nawaz Sharif one-week parole after death of his wife Kulsoom Nawaz in London.
Mr. Sharif is currently incarcerated in Pakistan in corruption cases.
In a media talk, PML-N leader Khwaja Imran Nazir Nazir paid heartfelt tribute to the wife of former PM Nawaz Sharif and said she was a brave woman who played vital role for democratic struggle.
He also announced that the party had suspended all its political activities for three days after a sad demise of former first lady Kulsoom Nawaz. He informed that the body of the PML-N leader would be shifted to Pakistan in couple of days.
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Kulsoom Nawaz Sharif, 68, died after months in a coma. She was diagnosed with lymphoma last year, barely a month after Nawaz Sharif was removed from office by the Supreme Court, which ordered him to face trial in an anti-corruption court.
“The wife of Mian Nawaz Sharif is no more among us. May God rest her in peace,” Shehbaz Sharif, said on Twitter.
Nawaz Sharif was in London with Kulsoom earlier this year when the anti-corruption court handed him a 10-year jail term and sentenced his presumed political heir, Maryam, to seven years in prison over the purchase of luxury flats in London in the 1990s.
The father and daughter left her bedside to return to Pakistan to rally their followers ahead of July 25 elections, which their party lost to the former cricket star Imran Khan’s party. Both were arrested on arrival and have been imprisoned since.
Kulsoom Nawaz was briefly a member of parliament after she won her husband’s former seat in a by-election in 2017 after the Supreme Court disqualified him.
