Speaking to the Guardian in his last interview before handing over to a caretaker leader, Sharif said that "victimisation is not in [his] dictionary" and he accused Khan of "shabby treatment of opposition leaders and putting them behind bars" when he was in power from 2018 to April last year.
Sharif, who spent seven months in prison after being jailed in 2020, said there was no "question of any crackdown and personal vendetta".
"We were treated shabbily and the jail manual was violated when Khan was PM. We were terribly victimised. But we don't believe in tit for tat... Relevant institutions, courts and rule of law would take its own course in Khan's [legal case],"❞ Sharif said.
On 5 August, Khan was arrested at his home in the eastern city of Lahore by hundreds of police officers after a court found the former international cricketer guilty of "corrupt practices" involving the sale of state gifts. He was sentenced to three years in prison. According to the constitution, that means Khan is automatically banned from politics for five years.
Khan has denied all wrongdoing and his lawyer, Intezar Hussain Panjutha, said the former prime minister would be appealing against the ruling, calling it a case of "political victimisation".
The court's judgment is likely to prevent Khan, the leader and founder of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, standing in forthcoming elections. The polls are scheduled for November, but could be delayed further.
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