ISLAMABAD: Pakistani Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah has claimed that the current government is considering suspending former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's conviction order.
"The government and the judiciary have the power to suspend the conviction," Sanaullah told a private news programme, according to The News. He went on to say that the government could commute, decrease, or postpone anyone's sentence.
The Interior Minister stated that if an innocent person is wrongfully convicted, the sentence will be suspended and they will be given an opportunity to contact the court in a right manner. The government issued the former prime minister a new passport with a ten-year validity period late last month, allowing him to return to Pakistan.
The Supreme Court barred the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo from holding public office in 2017, and he moved abroad for medical treatment after serving only a few months of a 10-year prison sentence on corruption allegations.
Since being released from prison, he has lived in London for the past two years.
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