Pakistan: Pakistani Prime Minister Sharif Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison

Abbey added that the NAB court had ordered Sharif to pay a fine of 8 million pounds sterling. Maryam was ordered to pay a fine of £ 2 million, while ordering the confiscation of London properties on behalf of the Pakistani government.

Sharif and his daughter were in London on Friday with Sharif's wife, Kulsoom, who is being treated. They both denied having committed wrongdoing and should appeal

The National Accountability Bureau ( NAB) accused Sharif and his family of being unable to show the trail of money for the purchase of several luxury properties in London, mainly in the mid-1990s.

Sharif was ousted by the Supreme Court in July 2017 and banned from the policy to be dishonest "by failing to report a monthly income of 10,000 emirati dirham ($ 2,723) from a company owned by his son. He denies having touched the monthly salary

but he kept control of the party of the Pakistani Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) that he founded.

The decision against the Sharifs comes at a time when suspicion of military interference escalates in politics before the July 25 elections, as well as media complaints that the press is muzzled.

Sharif had denounced the judicial proceedings against him as politically motivated and a witch hunt judicial, often suggesting that the hidden hand of the "Haggai" was not the same. army was to blame.

A few hours before the verdict, Maryam's husband, Safdar, called the operation a "burial" for justice, says a statement from the PML-N.

"It is to be seen if this decision is written by a judge or a general," said Safdar.

The army, which has led the country with nuclear weapons for almost half of its history, denies any involvement in civil policy.

But the Army put an end to Sharif's second term in power in 1999 during a bloodless state coup

COMFORT FOR KHAN?

His political career was first nurtured by military dictator Zia ul-Haq in the 1980s.

He went on scrambled with powerful generals once he came to power ten years later, and the relationship between them was difficult. partly because Sharif challenged the military on foreign policy control, which generals have traditionally considered their domain.

Sharif argued that the military, in cahoots with the best members of the judiciary, used a series of cases against him and other members of his party tipped the scales in favor of Imran Khan, a politician turned cricket player, on the eve of the election.

Khan runs on a socially conservative and anti-corruption platform. He denies complicity with the military establishment and praises disqualifications and lawsuits against PML-N figures as a crackdown on corruption.

PML-N officials also accuse the military of using their muscles to twist the media arm. restrict the coverage of criticism of justice and the army by Sharif and his allies.

Sharif's youngest brother, Shehbaz Sharif, who headed the PML-N, said on Thursday a recent action by the National Accountability Bureau. the judiciary cast doubt on the election.

"All political parties must have a level playing field," he said on Twitter