RAWALPINDI – Sharif family members on Thursday met ex-prime minister NawazSharif, his daughter Maryam Nawaz and son-in-law Captain (r) Safdar inAdiala Jail.

At least 40 people including 25 PML-N leaders reached the jail for meetingwith former PM.

On July 13, Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam Nawaz were arrested andshifted to jail after they landed at Lahore’s Allama Iqbal InternationalAirport.

Nawaz was sentenced to 11 years in prisonlinkNational Accountability Bureau (NAB) court over his family’s purchase ofluxury apartments in London, whereas, his daughter Maryam was sentenced toseven years in prison.

The ex-premier’s son-in-law was also sent to jail for one-year on the samecharge.

The Avenfield reference is one of the three corruption references, filed bythe NAB on orders of the Supreme Court of Pakistan (SCP), whichdisqualified Nawaz Sharif, ousting him from premiership and finding himguilty in the Panama Paper case verdict.