Ex-PM Nawaz Sharif to return to Pakistan? 

Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is expected to return to Pakistan next month, ending his more than four years of self-imposed exile in the UK, according to a media report on Saturday. Sharif to return but when? Sharif, the PML-N’s supreme leader, spoke about his return, but a clear date for travel has not been […]

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Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is expected to return to Pakistan next month, ending his more than four years of self-imposed exile in the UK, according to a media report on Saturday.

Sharif to return but when?

Sharif, the PML-N’s supreme leader, spoke about his return, but a clear date for travel has not been disclosed, citing sources present at a conference in London where he was addressing his party’s members.

Flashback to the incident

Since November 2019, Sharif has been residing in self-imposed exile in London. In 2018, he was found guilty in the corruption trials involving Al-Azizia Mills and Avenfield. Prior to being permitted to go to London in 2019 on “medical grounds,” he had been sentenced to seven years in prison in the Al-Azizia Mills case and was incarcerated in Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat Prison.

More on his return

Workers from the PML-N were excited to plan for their leader’s homecoming and were talking about the logistics of it at the meeting. In October, Sharif announced his return to Pakistan.

Nawaz Sharif previously informed them that he must return to engage with his vote bank and supporters amid the ongoing economic crisis.

In a previous statement made on August 25, Shehbaz, the younger brother of Sharif, said the former leader will be returning to Pakistan in September “to face his pending court cases and lend support to the party’s campaign for the general election.”

Nawaz will return to Pakistan to serve as prime minister for an unprecedented fourth time, according to Shehbaz, the president of the PML-N party.