LAHORE: Ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif will be heading back to Kot Lakhpat Jail on Tuesday evening after the expiry of his six-week bail period.
The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader will be turning himself in to the jail authorities after breaking his fast tomorrow at his Jati Umra residence in Lahore.
The Supreme Court (SC) had turned down his plea for an extension to his bail period on medical grounds last week.
Meanwhile, Nawaz’s party has decided to set up 10 camps on the way to Kot Lakhpat Jail to express solidarity with him.
Leader of the Opposition in the Punjab Assembly Hamza Shehbaz chaired a consultation meeting at the PML-N Secretariat in Model Town on Monday to finalise the arrangements for Nawaz’s rally.
The party meeting decided that Maryam Nawaz will accompany her father, and will be present in his car. She will remain with Nawaz along with Hamza Shehbaz until he is taken into custody by the jail authorities.
Responding to the recent hike in petroleum prices, the party has also decided to put up hoardings, banners, posters and flexes at public places across the city as a protest against the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)-led federal government.
The PML-N supreme leader was sentenced to seven years in prison and was fined Rs1.5 billion in the Al-Azizia reference by an accountability court on December 24, 2018. However, he was acquitted in another reference related to Flagship Investments.
He was imprisoned in Adiyala Jail and shifted to Kot Lakhpat Jail on his request.
He was granted bail for six weeks by the Supreme Court to afford him an opportunity to get treatment of his choice in the country for his complicated heart and kidney disease.
The bail expires on May 7 as the apex court rejected his review petition seeking permission to go abroad for the treatment.
Nawaz Sharif had filed a petition in the Supreme Court on April 30 which stated that a review petition had been filed in the Supreme Court on its March 26 decision. The petition sought an extension in Nawaz’s bail until a decision on the review petition.
