The cancer-stricken Kulsoom Nawaz – wife of Pakistan’s former prime minister Nawaz Sharif died in London on Tuesday while her husband and daughter were in jail, officials said.
Kulsoom Nawaz Sharif, 68, died after months in a coma. She was diagnosed with lymphoma last year, barely a month after Nawaz Sharif was removed from office by the Pakistan Supreme Court after being ordered to face trial in an anti-corruption court.
New Prime Minister Imran Khan issued a statement offering condolences and ordering the Pakistani High Commission in London to “provide the family all the necessary facilities and cooperation”.
Nawaz Sharif was in London with Kulsoom earlier this year when the anti-corruption court handed him a 10-year jail term and sentenced his presumed political heir, daughter Maryam, to seven years in prison over the purchase of luxury flats in London in the 1990s.
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