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  Major relief for Nawaz Sharif as Pakistan court orders return of ex-PM's seized property, assets

  World | November 11, 2023 15:51 IST

  During the hearing, the NAB prosecutor contended that Sharif had surrendered, therefore, his arrest warrant should be cancelled. “If the warrants are cancelled, then the trial can move forward,” he said.

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  Pakistan govt suspends former PM Nawaz Sharif’s sentence in Al-Azizia reference: Report

  World | October 24, 2023 17:16 IST

  Earlier in 2018, the accountability court had awarded a 10-year jail term to Nawaz Sharif in the Avenfield case and a seven-year sentence in the Al-Azizia reference. Besides, the court had also disqualified him from holding public office for the next ten years.

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  Pakistan to hold general elections in last week of January 2024, announces Election Commission

  World | September 21, 2023 15:55 IST

  In a statement, the election commission said that it reviewed work on delimiting constituencies and decided that the initial list for the delimitation of constituencies would be published on September 27.

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  Pakistan is begging money from world while India reached moon and hosted G20 summit: Nawaz Sharif

  World | September 19, 2023 22:32 IST

  Pakistan's economy has been in a free fall mode for the last many years, bringing untold pressure on the poor masses in the form of unchecked double-digit inflation.

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  Will Nawaz Sharif be arrested after he returns to Pakistan ahead of elections? PM Kakar reacts

  World | September 14, 2023 18:30 IST

  Nawaz's younger brother and PML-N president Shehbaz Sharif said in London that his brother would return to Pakistan from the UK on October 21 to lead the party's political campaign in the upcoming elections.

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  Pakistan ex-PM Nawaz is clueless about 3 cars registered under his name in UK; busted when fined

  World | May 08, 2023 20:14 IST

  Sharif's party described the incident as "deliberate" and accused the Imran Khan-led PTI party of exploiting the name and reputation of the former Prime Minister.

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  Pakistan’s new govt issues passport to ex-premier Nawaz Sharif to return

  World | April 25, 2022 23:53 IST

  The 72-year-old three-time premier, against whom several corruption cases were launched by the government of former prime minister Imran Khan, had left for London in November 2019 after the Lahore High Court granted him four-week permission allowing him to go abroad for his treatment.

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  Nawaz Sharif was a 'selected' prime minister: Bilawal Bhutto

  World | February 23, 2020 21:50 IST

  Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari has said that like Imran Khan, PML-N supreme leader Nawaz Sharif was also "selected" for the post of premier, in a U-turn from his earlier comments that opposition parties are united.

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  Ailing Nawaz Sharif consults medical specialists in UK

  World | November 20, 2019 15:44 IST

  Sharif's air ambulance flight from Lahore landed in London on Tuesday evening after a stopover in Doha, Qatar. The air ambulance was equipped with an intensive care unit and an operation theatre.  

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  Danger to Sharif's health increasing due to delay in his travel abroad: Party

  World | November 11, 2019 21:03 IST

  The 69-year-old Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo agreed on Friday to go to the UK for the treatment, heeding doctors' advice and accepting his family's request. He was scheduled to leave for London on a Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight on Sunday morning. However, he could not leave as his name figured in the no fly-list (Exit Control List-ECL)

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  Pak PM directs Punjab govt to extend best medical care to Nawaz Sharif

  World | October 24, 2019 6:49 IST

  Sharif, 69, was shifted to the Services Hospital in Lahore on Monday after his condition deteriorated with critically low platelet count.

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  Sharif's condition worsen, he might have been given poison: Son

  World | October 22, 2019 23:46 IST

  He said the Imran Khan government will have to give answer for not shifting Sharif to hospital on time despite his critically low platelets count - 16,000, as per his fresh medical reports.

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  Pak judge 'blackmailed' into issuing verdict against Nawaz Sharif: Maryam Nawaz

  India | July 07, 2019 22:19 IST

  Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leader Maryam Nawaz has released a video clip purportedly showing an accountability court judge allegedly confessing that he was "blackmailed and forced" to convict former premier Nawaz Sharif in a corruption case.

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  Al-Azizia corruption case: Nawaz Sharif re-files bail plea on health grounds

  World | May 20, 2019 12:41 IST

  The petition requested the court to allow Nawaz Sharif to get a medical treatment abroad, claiming that the former prime minister was suffering from acute anxiety and depression that would lead to ‘sudden death’.

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  Nawaz Sharif back in jail after massive show of strength

  World | May 08, 2019 14:36 IST

  On March 26, the Supreme Court suspended Sharif's seven-year sentence in the Al-Azizia Steel Mills corruption case and granted him bail for six weeks with a condition that he would not leave Pakistan.

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  Ousted Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif shifted to Kot Lakhpat jail in Lahore

  World | December 25, 2018 16:23 IST

  Pakistan's ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was shifted to Kot Lakhpat jail here on Tuesday, a day after an anti-corruption court sentenced him to seven years in prison in a graft case linked to the high-profile Panama Papers scandal.

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  Medical team advises Nawaz Sharif to 'immediately' shift to hospital for treatment

  World | July 23, 2018 11:57 IST

  Jailed Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif who has fallen ill and was suffering from heart and kidney ailments, has been asked to be shifted to a hospital by a medical team

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  Avenfield Corruption Case: Ousted Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif, daughter Maryam arrested at Lahore airport

  World | July 13, 2018 23:44 IST

  Both Sharif, 68, and Maryam, 44, have been sentenced by an accountability court to 10 and 7 years in prison respectively.

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  Avenfield properties case: Nawaz Sharif's son-in-law arrested following conviction

  World | July 08, 2018 20:25 IST

  Captain (retired) Muhammad Safdar, his wife Maryam and Sharif were given jail terms on Friday in the Avenfield properties case.

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  Pak blocks circulation of Dawn newspaper over Nawaz Sharif's confession on 26/11 attacks

  World | May 20, 2018 10:29 IST

  The latest move comes after the daily published ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's controversial remarks on the deadly 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks.