Nawaz Sharif’s return to Pakistan on Oct 21 is final, says Shehbaz

Shehbaz Sharif, the president of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), dismissed on Friday rumours of delaying the arrival in Pakistan of party leader Nawaz Sharif, declaring that the elder Sharif would touch down on Pakistani territory on October 21.

Nawaz return Pakistan on Oct 21 is final: The former prime minister Shehbaz remarked at a press conference in Lahore, “Don’t ask this again and again – the date for Nawaz’s return is final and he will arrive on October 21.

Prior to Nawaz Sharif’s anticipated return to Pakistan, a medical report on his condition was delivered to the Lahore High Court (LHC) earlier in the day.

According to the study, Nawaz experienced “some residual anginal symptoms” that necessitated “frequent follow-up investigations” in both Pakistan and London.

Additionally, it stated that the former PM’s previous return to Pakistan had been delayed because of the Covid-19 pandemic and lingering symptoms.

Shehbaz reiterated during the press conference that the vote of no confidence against Imran Khan, the leader of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), “was a constitutional matter” and that the nation would have “defaulted” if the coalition led by the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) at the time had not won the election.

Shehbaz declared, “We sacrificed our politics and saved the nation.” “Since we preserved the nation, we shall preserve politics as well.”

He claimed that the coalition government had numerous difficulties, some of which were “inherited from the previous PTI-led government” and connected to inflation and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

“Nawaz Sharif’s Potential Return and PML-N’s Election Strategy”

According to reports, Nawaz will head up the PML-N’s election campaign when he returns to Pakistan in September. Nawaz-Shehbaz determined the party chief would postpone his return until a later time, nonetheless.

Shehbaz had declared in July that Nawaz would be the PML-N’s nominee for the position of prime minister if the party won the next elections.

Nawaz has lived in exile since 2019, largely in London, after being permanently barred from politics.

After the Senate approved changes to the Election Act, which altered the time restrictions for how long a legislator can be disqualified, the likelihood of Nawaz’s comeback rose.

According to the regulations approved by the upper house on June 17, a person’s prohibition from running for provincial or central legislatures will not exceed five years in circumstances where the period has not been specified.

Four provisions of the Supreme Court (Review of Judgements and Orders) Act 2023 give them the opportunity to have their disqualifications reversed as well.

On November 19, 2019, Nawaz departed for London after being released on bail from a seven-year sentence for corruption by the Islamabad High Court. In the Al Azizia case, his bail was authorised for eight weeks based on medical justification.

A problem of the immune system was identified in him.

He left after his brother Shehbaz Sharif deliberated and made a commitment to “ensure the return of his brother within four weeks or on certification by doctors that he has regained his health and is fit to return back to Pakistan.”