Sharif's home declared jail while on parole to mourn his wife's death

ISLAMABAD: The Imran Khan government on Wednesday declared the residence of former PM Nawaz Sharif in Lahore as a sub-jail after releasing him, his daughter Maryam and son-in-law Muhammad Safdar on parole to mourn the death of Sharif’s ailing wife.
Kulsoom Nawaz passed away at a hospital in London on Tuesday. She will be laid to rest at the Jati Umra, Lahore residence of the Sharif family.
The parole, initially granted for one day, was later extended by three days.The trio was escorted by police to the Nur Khan airbase from where they were flown to Lahore.
The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) president and Nawaz’s younger brother, Shahbaz Sharif, departed on Wednesday morning for London to attend funeral prayers at the Regent’s Park mosque on Thursday before bringing her body to Lahore.
According to the Sharif family, Kulsoom’s sons would not accompany her body to Lahore though her daughter, Asma, and grandson, Zikriya Sharif, would come with the casket to Pakistan.
“A PIA flight carrying the body will arrive here on Friday morning and she is likely to be laid to rest the same day beside the grave of her father-in-law Mian Sharif at Jati Umra,” the PML-N sources said.
The former three-time first lady was under treatment in London after being diagnosed with cancer in August 2017.