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Former Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif granted bail on medical grounds

Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was released from a jail in Lahore early today after the Supreme Court granted him bail for six weeks on medical grounds.<br />''<br />''He was serving a 7-year imprisonment in the Al Azizia Steel Mills graft case. A three-judge bench led by the Chief Justice of Pakistan's Supreme Court allowed him to get medical treatment. But the court ruled that he cannot go out of the country.<br />''<br />''<span style="color: #222222;">Three corruption cases were registered against the Sharif family by the anti-graft body in 2017 following a Supreme Court  judgment that disqualified Sharif in the Panama Papers case.</span><br />

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