{"id":300334,"date":"2018-07-13T07:17:45","date_gmt":"2018-07-13T07:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=300334"},"modified":"2018-07-13T07:19:52","modified_gmt":"2018-07-13T07:19:52","slug":"nawaz-sharif-daughter-maryam-leave-for-pakistan-likely-to-be-arrested-mid-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/nawaz-sharif-daughter-maryam-leave-for-pakistan-likely-to-be-arrested-mid-air\/","title":{"rendered":"Nawaz Sharif, Daughter Maryam leave for Pakistan, likely to be arrested Mid-Air"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_300335\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-300335\" style=\"width: 670px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-300335\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/sharifs-300x213.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"670\" height=\"476\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/sharifs-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/sharifs-100x70.jpg 100w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/sharifs-696x495.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/sharifs-591x420.jpg 591w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/sharifs.jpg 726w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-300335\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nawaz Sharif and Maryan Sharif at Abu Dhabi Airport<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam, sentenced to jail for corruption, are expected to arrive in Pakistan in the evening.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A team of Pakistan&#8217;s National Accountability Bureau is apparently trying to leave for Abu Dhabi to board the flight taken by the Sharifs, as the arrest can be done when plane enters Pakistani air space.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">After arrest the two will be taken to the Adiala Jail Rawalpindi amid tight security where they will be kept for one day and then be transferred to the Attock Fort.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Nawaz Sharif was sentenced to 10 years in prison by a Pakistani accountability court for corrupt practices linked to his family&#8217;s purchase of four London flats. He faces two more corruption cases against him following the Panama Paper scandal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cMy mother is on the ventilator and we don&#8217;t know what happens next, their is no pain like that of leaving your mother behind in such situation but there&#8217;s a national duty and we must make this important journey.&#8221; &#8220;Told my kids to be brave in the face of oppression. But kids will still be kids. Goodbyes are hard, even for the grownups,&#8221; said by Nawaz\u2019s daughter Maryam Nawaz, 44, who was also convicted and sentenced to seven years in prison.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam, sentenced to jail for corruption, are expected to arrive in Pakistan in the evening. A team of Pakistan&#8217;s National Accountability Bureau is apparently trying to leave for Abu Dhabi to board the flight taken by the Sharifs, as the arrest can be done when plane [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":300335,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[3606,3605,1476,48],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300334"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300334"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300338,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300334\/revisions\/300338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/300335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}