{"id":151317,"date":"2018-07-06T11:48:03","date_gmt":"2018-07-06T11:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/pakistan-ex-pm-nawaz-sharif-given-10-year-jail-term\/"},"modified":"2018-07-06T11:48:03","modified_gmt":"2018-07-06T11:48:03","slug":"pakistan-ex-pm-nawaz-sharif-given-10-year-jail-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/pakistan-ex-pm-nawaz-sharif-given-10-year-jail-term\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan ex-PM Nawaz Sharif given 10-year jail term"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Nawaz Sharif. Photo: 1 November 2017\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/14E5\/production\/_98594350_1a736e3b-d2c5-4f81-a4e9-6cfece4287d1.jpg\"\/>Image copyright                  AFP\/Getty Images<figcaption>Image caption                                      Nawaz Sharif denies any wrongdoing                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">A Pakistani court has sentenced former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to 10 years in prison on corruption charges related to four luxury London flats.<\/p>\n<p>The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) court handed down the verdict after a series of delays.<\/p>\n<p>His daughter, Maryam Sharif, also received a seven-year sentence, while his former security officer Safdar Awan received a one-year sentence. <\/p>\n<p>Nawaz Sharif has called the charges politically motivated.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nawaz Sharif&#039;s Panamagate explained<\/li>\n<li>How a font exposed &#039;fake&#039; documents<\/li>\n<li>Profile: Nawaz Sharif<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The case, known as the Avenfield Reference, relates to a number of properties in the UK capital.<\/p>\n<p>The Panama Papers leak in 2015 revealed several of Sharif&#039;s children had links to offshore companies, which were allegedly used to channel funds and buy foreign assets - including luxury flats in Avenfield House, on London&#039;s Park Lane.<\/p>\n<p>His family, however, insist they legitimately acquired the four properties.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the Pakistani media set up outside the Avenfield House properties, where the family reportedly watched the verdict:<\/p>\n<figure>                              Image Copyright @MurtazaViews               @MurtazaViews                      <noindex><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/contact-us\/editorial\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Report<\/a><\/noindex>       <\/figure>\n<figure>                   <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Twitter post by @MurtazaViews: Pakistani media outside #Avenfield apartments awaits #AvenfieldVerdict \" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/socialembed\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/MurtazaViews\/status\/1015178224572215297~\/news\/world-asia-44737793\"\/>Image Copyright @MurtazaViews                   @MurtazaViews                              <noindex><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/contact-us\/editorial\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Report<\/a><\/noindex>           <\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright AFP\/Getty ImagesImage caption Nawaz Sharif denies any wrongdoing A Pakistani court has sentenced former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to 10 years in prison on corruption charges related to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":151318,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}