Pak government declares Nawaz Sharif a fugitive, contacts Britain for extradition

A request has been sent to the British Government for extradition of Nawaz Sharif. He is currently in London for treatment.

The Pakistan government has declared former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif a fugitive and contacted the British government for his extradition. He is currently in London for treatment. Shahzad Akbar, advisor to the Pakistani Prime Minister on accountability and internal affairs, said that Sharif’s bail period of four weeks on medical grounds ended in December last year.

Akbar was quoted as saying by Dawn News on Saturday, “The government is treating him (Sharif) as a fugitive and a request has been sent to the British government for his extradition.”

Nawaz Sharif was sentenced to imprisonment by an accountability court in a corruption case. He informed a Lahore court last week that he was unable to return to the country as his doctors told him not to go there due to the corona virus epidemic.

Nawaz Sharif, through his lawyer, submitted his medical report to the Lahore High Court and said that doctors have advised him not to go out due to the epidemic as he has low platelets in his blood, he is suffering from diabetes, heart, kidney and blood pressure problems. Are affected by

Akbar said that the government will ask the National Accountability Bureau to carry forward the process of extradition of Sharif and is also looking into the legal validity of the guarantee of Shahbaz Sharif, who is going to bring his elder brother with him to Pakistan after treatment.

His comment came after a new picture was shared on social media. It is seen in the picture that Sharif is walking on the streets of London with his son Hasan Nawaz carrying an umbrella.

“His photographs of walking on the streets of London are a slap in the face of the judiciary and the government cannot allow it,” the advisor was quoted as saying in the news. There is nothing personal in this: we are just trying to implement the law and fulfill its needs. “

Sharif (70), a three-time Prime Minister of Pakistan, is in London for treatment. He went there after finding out the problem in the body’s immune system. He went to Britain in November last year. The Lahore High Court allowed him to go abroad for treatment for four weeks.

Akbar alleged that the former prime minister had submitted a fake test report of the laboratory. He said that the Law Ministry and the Bureau and Jail Department have been informed about the end of their bail period and the request for extension in it has been rejected. He said that the British government was also made aware of this incident on March 2, as well as a request for his extradition.

The newspaper reported that Akbar commented on the recent photographs of Sharif and said that the former Prime Minister looked absolutely healthy in the pictures shared by his sons. However,

his daughter Maryam Nawaz had said that his father was a very high risk patient, so his heart operation was postponed in view of Kovid-19.