LAHORE ,July 19, 2023: PML-N supremo and former prime minister Nawaz Sharif may return after the retirement of Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Umar Ata Bandial, said PML-N leader Khawaja Asif said on Tuesday.
“We [PML-N members] have a threat from the behaviour of “good to see you” [referring to the top judge],” he said while appearing in a television talk show.
Showing his severe concerns over the behaviour of the apex court, especially during the past few months, the defence minister said one should not take the risk of Nawaz Sharif’s return in this situation.
Sharif, who has been in self-imposed exile in London since November 2019, quit as the prime minister on July 28, 2017, after being disqualified from holding public office by the Supreme Court in a landmark verdict.
The apex court had unanimously disqualified Nawaz for failing to disclose his un-withdrawn receivables constituting assets from UAE-based Capital FZE in his nominations papers for the 2013 general elections, stating that this meant he was not “honest” and “truthful”, as per the Constitution.
To a question, the PML-N leader said his party supremo’s homecoming before the upcoming general elections in the country is necessary and that the party workers had been waiting for their supreme leader for the past three and half years.
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Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) co-chairperson Asif Ali Zardari and Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Tuesday met Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and decided to take PDM allies into confidence to form an interim government.
The prime minister received both the leaders on their arrival, said the Prime Minister’s Office in a statement. The PPP bigwigs and the premier exchanged views on the country’s political situation.
On the occasion, Finance Minister Ishaq Dar and Economic Affairs Minister Sardar Ayaz Sadiq were also present.