LAHORE: PML-N vice president Maryam Nawaz has warned that she will go on a hunger strike if her father former premier Nawaz Sharif is not allowed home-cooked food.

“The fake government has imposed a ban on the home-cooked food for Mian Nawaz Sharif. Mian sahib has refused to eat the jail meal. Today the staff (of the Sharif family) was made to wait outside the Kot Lakhpat jail for five hours but the authorities refused to receive it,” she tweeted on Monday.

She said she would file a petition in the court during the next 24 hours to get this restriction lifted. “If I do not get relief, I will go on hunger strike outside the jail. I have no trust in oppressors as they can mix anything in the meal of Nawaz Sharif,” she said.

Ms Maryam said her warning should not be considered a threat as she would go on hunger strike on failing to get relief.

Mr Sharif is serving a seven-year imprisonment in Kot Lakhpat jail in the Al-Azizia Steel Mills case.

The Punjab government has recently denied home-cooked food for Mr Sharif citing that the jail manual does not permit this.

Punjab chief minister’s spokesman Shahbaz Gill said home-cooked food could not be given to Mr Sharif as the jail manual did not permit this. He said a doctors’ panel would also suggest diet chart for Mr Sharif.

Published in Dawn, July 9th, 2019