Lahore, 3rd December: PML-N President Shehbaz Sharif and son Hamza Shehbaz have been taken back to the prison today.
According to reports, both father-son has been escorted back to the prison in separate vehicles on Thursday.
Shehbaz Sharif and Hamza Shehbaz were released from Kot Lakhpat jail Lahore on five-day parole to attend the funeral of Shehbaz’s mother, Begum Shamim Akhtar. On the request of PML-N, the government extended the parole by 24 hours on December 2.
It may be remembered that Begum Shamim, the mother of Shehbaz and Nawaz Sharif, had passed away in London on November 22. The 89-year-old had been ill for a month or so. She had travelled to the United Kingdom in February to see her ailing son, Nawaz Sharif.
Her funeral prayers were held at the Sharif Medical City in Raiwand and she was laid to rest next to her husband, Mian Sharif’s, grave at the family’s home Jati Umra in Lahore on Saturday.
PML-N had submitted a request for a 14-day release on parole to the Deputy Commissioner Lahore soon after the death.
According to sources at the Ministry of Interior, Punjab Chief Minister Usman Buzdar had sent a request for the temporary release of Shehbaz Sharif and Hamza to the provincial cabinet for approval.
After the provincial cabinet gave the go-ahead of the release, Shehbaz and Hamza were released on parole on November 27.
