Former PM Nawaz sharif Returns Pakistan After 4 Years (Image: Twitter/ Ishaq Dar)
Pakistan’s former Prime Minister and businessman Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif arrived the country, on Saturday, October 21, after four-years of self-imposed exile in the UK. He took a chartered flight from Dubai to fly Islamabad. Former Finance Minister Ishaq Dar took to his official X (formerly Twitter) handle to share the updates and posted pictures of the ex-PM at the airport completing his immigration formalities.
Mr Sharif is said to attend a rally at Minar-i-Pakistan in Lahore on the same day after spending an hour in Islamabad. He may first to visit his Jati Umra residence before leaving for the Minar-i-Pakistan. To touchdown Islamabad, the capital, is necessary for him to make the bail which was earlier granted by the Islamabad High Court on Thursday, reported the Dawn.
AlhamdoLilah all immigration formalities completed at Islamabad airport by the Quaid PMLN Mian Nawaz Sharif🤲 pic.twitter.com/IHW8boqWfv
— Ishaq Dar (@MIshaqDar50) October 21, 2023
The longest serving Prime Minister of Pakistan, held three non-consecutive terms in the office, landed home-country ahead of national elections and is expected to kick-start the party campaigns. He hasn’t set foot in Pakistan since he left for London in 2019 to receive medical treatment while serving a 14-year prison sentence for corruption. He is not permitted to run again an election or hold public office because of the convictions. Mr Sharif will appeal the ban.
The Pakistan Muslim League (N) leader was removed from the office in 2017 by the Supreme Court following the revelations from the Panama Papers case. In 2018, he was disqualified from holding public office and sentenced to ten years in prison by an accountability court. He was declared an absconder by a Pakistani court but the Islamabad High Court (IHC) granted him protective bail till October 24 in the Avenfield and Al-Aziza cases.
