Pakistan’s three-time former Prime Minister Mian Mohammad Nawaz Sharif, his daughter Maryam Nawaz Sharif and his son-in-law Muhammad Safdar were sentenced to prison terms for impropriety in the ownership of certain properties in the United Kingdom. On July 13, Nawaz and Maryam returned to Pakistan and were immediately sent to jail.
The case against the Sharifs is a curious one, where Pakistan’s National Accountability Bureau (NAB) was not able to prove any graft or outright corruption against the family, while the defendants were unable to convincingly show the trail linking the ownership of the properties to the source of the