Nawaz Sharif can apply for a "Better Class" prison

Sharif and Maryam were convicted by a Pakistani court in the Avenfield Apartments reference and sentenced to 10 and 7 years in prison respectively.

The girls' duo will be arrested on Friday upon their arrival at Lahore airport from London where they take care of Sharif's wife, Kulsoom N awaz, who is suffering from throat cancer and has been broken down since June 14th after cardiac arrest.

"Sharif will be sent to a prison in the" Better Clbad "category by virtue of being a former parliamentarian, but Maryam may only benefit from this facility if she proves that she has paid at least 6,000,000 rupees as an annual income tax, "reported Dawn, citing the authorities.

They should apply for a better-clbad prison because it does not apply automatically to them.In addition, the prisons would not be equipped with. an air conditioner or a refrigerator.

"This is what the family can get under the law," said a senior official of the Interior Ministry. The cap (ret) Muhammad Safdar, Sharif's son-in-law, can also get a better-clbad prison after applying, he did not ask for it in writing last night and was not sentenced to a term of imprisonment in this category. an official source was quoted as saying.

Officials indicated that the British categories of Category A, B or C prisons in Punjab province no longer apply. The clbadification was changed to Better Clbad and Ordinary Clbad by an amendment to the Punjab Prison Rules on a Lahore High Court Direction a few years ago

According to the rules, Sharif 68 years old can get a better prison clbad if submitting an application requesting it. However, the rules do not confer any additional privilege on a former or current president, prime minister or chief minister.

Since Maryam is neither a former military official nor a civil officer, like her husband, or a parliamentarian or a former parliamentarian, Like her father, she can only claim to the upper clbad that if she proves, with documents, that she has paid at least an annual income tax of 600,000 rupees, according to the newspaper.

Higher-clbad prisons have limited facilities. Those who have the option are entitled to books and newspapers, a 21-inch television, a table and chair, a mattress, personal bedding and clothes and food. Prisoners have to pay for it all themselves. The government is only obliged to provide them security in a high security area where they will be kept away from other prisoners.

Under the legal procedure, the National Accountability Office (NAB) will have to produce Sharif and Maryam before the liability judge who sentenced them. The judge will then give the NAB an arrest warrant which will contain the details of the sentence imposed on him and the instructions given to the director of the prison to be placed in custody, according to the document.

. prison inmates will be kept at first. But Sharif and her daughter are likely to be confined to Adiala Prison because she has an isolated high security room.