ISLAMABAD: Jailed Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leader Maryam Nawaz’srequest to allow her to teach female inmates has been rejected by AdialaJail authorities, a lawyer of the Sharif family has said.

Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, 68, and his daughter Maryam, 44, areserving jail terms of 10-years and seven years respectively in Adiala jailin Rawalpindi, after an accountability court convicted them on July 6 overthe family’s ownership of four luxury flats in London.

The Sharif family’s legal team members — Amjad Pervaiz, Barrister SaadHashmi and Zaafir Khan — yesterday met the detained supremo of PML-N, hisdaughter and son-in-law after several rounds of deliberations with jailauthorities, Dawn reported.

Besides the legal team, Mohammad Aurangzeb, an official of the Pakistan BarCouncil (PBC), also met Sharif in jail, the paper said.

“Maryam wanted to teach female inmates, but the jail authorities remindedher since she was in solitary confinement she could not meet otherprisoners,” Pervaiz was quoted as saying by the paper.

“The jail authorities did not even provide her a pen and paper desp