{"id":310840,"date":"2019-03-27T07:29:24","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T07:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=310840"},"modified":"2019-03-27T07:29:24","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T07:29:24","slug":"nawaz-sharif-granted-6-weeks-bail-for-medical-treatment-within-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/nawaz-sharif-granted-6-weeks-bail-for-medical-treatment-within-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Nawaz Sharif granted 6-weeks\u2019 bail for medical treatment within Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-300698 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/nsharif-241x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"358\" height=\"446\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/nsharif-241x300.jpg 241w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/nsharif-338x420.jpg 338w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/nsharif.jpg 538w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 358px) 100vw, 358px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Pakistan\u2019s former prime minister Nawaz Sharif was released from jail on Wednesday, a day after the Supreme Court granted him six weeks\u2019 bail to obtain medical treatment of his choice within the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sharif, 69, was lodged in Lahore\u2019s jail since December 2018, serving seven-year imprisonment in the Al-Azizia Steel Mills graft case.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sharif who denies any wrongdoing has suffered four angina attacks in recent weeks, according to his daughter Maryam Nawaz.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Hours before Nawaz\u2019s release, the former prime minister&#8217;s daughter Maryam Nawaz took to Twitter to thank their fans for their support.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Maryam Nawaz Sharif tweeted, \u201cInsha\u2019Allah, MNS will be home soon. Want to take this opportunity to thank Allah &amp; then every PMLN supporter. You guys were instrumental in keeping my spirits &amp; hopes high. I have no words to express my gratitude. May Allah bless you all profusely. Ameen.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On Tuesday, the Supreme Court granted former premier Nawaz Sharif bail for six weeks, suspending his sentence and giving him the freedom to obtain medical treatment of his choice within the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A three-judge bench led by Chief Justice of Pakistan Asif Saeed Khosa accepted Sharif&#8217;s appeal on medical grounds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The top court noted that several senior doctors had suggested that Sharif&#8217;s history of hypertension, cardiac and renal ailments may present a &#8220;mild-moderate risk&#8221; if he is to undergo angiography, and therefore granting him relief for a limited period was a &#8220;reasonable&#8221; request.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">It subsequently directed Sharif to deposit two bail bonds worth Rs 5 million each, receive medical treatment, and surrender his custody after six weeks.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan\u2019s former prime minister Nawaz Sharif was released from jail on Wednesday, a day after the Supreme Court granted him six weeks\u2019 bail to obtain medical treatment of his choice within the country. Sharif, 69, was lodged in Lahore\u2019s jail since December 2018, serving seven-year imprisonment in the Al-Azizia Steel Mills graft case. Sharif who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":300698,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[1476,48],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310840"}],"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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310841,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310840\/revisions\/310841"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/300698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}