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Pak Cabinet approves open trial for Nawaz Sharif in remaining two graft cases

<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Pakistan's caretaker government has approved the open trial of jailed premier Nawaz Sharif in the remaining two graft cases against him,  withdrawing an earlier notification about his jail trial. Sharif, along with his daughter Maryam, and his son-in-law Capt (retd) Muhammad Safdar are serving jail terms of 10-years, seven years and one year in Adiala jail in Rawalpindi, after an accountability court convicted them on July 6 over the family's ownership of four luxury flats in London.  </span></div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br />''</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">The former prime minister has two more pending corruption cases — the Al-Azizia steel mills and Flagship — against him. </div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"></div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">The Cabinet, led by interim Prime Minister Nasirul Mulk, approved the open trial of Sharif in the remaining two cases lodged against him by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB).</div>

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