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ISLAMABAD: Former prime minister Shehbaz Sharif revealed on Tuesday the date his elder brother, PML(N) chief Nawaz Sharif, will return to Pakistan to lead the party’s political campaign for the upcoming elections in the country.
“Nawaz Sharif will reach Pakistan on October 21,” Shehbaz told a Pakistani TV station after a meeting of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz top leadership, chaired in London by his brother, a former three-time PM. According to the younger Sharif, his brother is to land in Lahore where he, Shehbaz, will personally receive him in his hometown.
“The whole nation is awaiting Nawaz Sharif’s return. The country and economy will progress again in the same way when Nawaz Sharif left Pakistan in 2017”, when he was disqualified and removed from power, Shehbaz said.
The date of Sharif’s return was also confirmed by PML-N spokesperson Marriyum Aurangzeb on X, formerly Twitter. “Important statement of former prime minister and president of Pakistan Muslim League-N Shehbaz Sharif, Muhammad Nawaz Sharif will return home on October 21,” she wrote.“Nawaz Sharif will be given a grand welcome upon his return home,” Aurangzeb added.
Last July, Shehbaz had said that if the PML-N was voted into government in the forthcoming elections, Nawaz would be the party’s candidate for PM.
The Pakistan Supreme Court had in 2017 disqualified Nawaz for life from holding public office in connection with the “Panama Papers” revelations. He left for London on November 19, 2019, after the Islamabad high court released him on bail from a seven-year sentence for corruption. The HC had approved bail on medical grounds for eight weeks, but he has stayed in exile for nearly four years.
The possibility of Sharif’s return was increased after parliament passed amendments to the Election Act, changing the law on how long a parliamentarian can be disqualified.
In the rules passed by the Upper House on June 17, in cases where the duration has not been specifically outlined, a person’s disqualification from provincial or central legislatures will not exceed five years.
“Nawaz Sharif will reach Pakistan on October 21,” Shehbaz told a Pakistani TV station after a meeting of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz top leadership, chaired in London by his brother, a former three-time PM. According to the younger Sharif, his brother is to land in Lahore where he, Shehbaz, will personally receive him in his hometown.
“The whole nation is awaiting Nawaz Sharif’s return. The country and economy will progress again in the same way when Nawaz Sharif left Pakistan in 2017”, when he was disqualified and removed from power, Shehbaz said.
The date of Sharif’s return was also confirmed by PML-N spokesperson Marriyum Aurangzeb on X, formerly Twitter. “Important statement of former prime minister and president of Pakistan Muslim League-N Shehbaz Sharif, Muhammad Nawaz Sharif will return home on October 21,” she wrote.“Nawaz Sharif will be given a grand welcome upon his return home,” Aurangzeb added.
Last July, Shehbaz had said that if the PML-N was voted into government in the forthcoming elections, Nawaz would be the party’s candidate for PM.
The Pakistan Supreme Court had in 2017 disqualified Nawaz for life from holding public office in connection with the “Panama Papers” revelations. He left for London on November 19, 2019, after the Islamabad high court released him on bail from a seven-year sentence for corruption. The HC had approved bail on medical grounds for eight weeks, but he has stayed in exile for nearly four years.
The possibility of Sharif’s return was increased after parliament passed amendments to the Election Act, changing the law on how long a parliamentarian can be disqualified.
In the rules passed by the Upper House on June 17, in cases where the duration has not been specifically outlined, a person’s disqualification from provincial or central legislatures will not exceed five years.
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