Islamabad: Pakistan's Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was released from jail on Wednesday after Supreme Court granted him six weeks' bail to receive medical treatment without "leaving the country".

According to the Dawn, Nawaz Sharif, who was sentenced to seven years in prison by an accountability court in Al-Azizia reference case last year, left Lahore's Kot Lakhpat Jail around 12:30 pm.