(6 Jul 2018) A senior leader of former Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif's party said the organisation's members would be even more united after Sharif was handed a 10-year jail term for corruption.
A Pakistani anti-graft tribunal on Friday announced a much-awaited ruling in a corruption case against Sharif, sentencing him to a decade in prison over purchases of luxury apartments in London.
Sharif, who is in London with his ailing wife, was not in the courtroom for the verdict and was sentenced in absentia.
"Our workers, I think, they will be more united, they will be feeling more strength, if somebody thinks PML-N will break-up , we have faced already many such situations, where  PML-N has again came with a bigger force, with a bigger strength," said  Anjum Aqeel, a senior leader of Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) party.
It's unlikely that Pakistan would seek Sharif's extradition from the UK, and the former premier has repeatedly said he would eventually return home for other trials that he faces.
It was the latest blow to Sharif, just weeks ahead of the country's parliament elections later this month, and also the first verdict against the embattled former premier who has faced a string of trials since he was ousted from office by the Supreme Court last year for concealing assets abroad.

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