London (Web Desk): Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo Nawaz Sharif will return to Pakistan on October 21, party president Shehbaz Sharif confirmed on Tuesday.
The statement came after a meeting of the PML-N's top leadership headed by Nawaz in London.
The meeting was attended by was attended by Shehbaz Sharif, former federal minister Khawaja Asif, PML-N Punjab leader Malik Mohammad Ahmed Khan, Hassan Nawaz, Suleman Shehbaz and Nasir Janjua.
PML-N Information Secretary Marriyum Aurangzeb also shared Shehbaz Sharif's statement on social media platform X (formerly Twitter) saying that the party founder would be given a splendid welcome upon his arrival.
The statement came after a meeting of the PML-N's top leadership headed by Nawaz in London.
Last week, Nawaz himself, during his interaction with his party workers and supporters at Stanhope House, had confirmed that he will return to Pakistan in October.
Earlier, PML-N President Shehbaz also said that his brother would be returning in October however, he had not mentioned the exact date.
"Nawaz Sharif will return to Pakistan in October and lead the election campaign and this has been decided after party consultations,” Shehbaz had said, adding that the PML-N supremo would face the law of the land when he is back in Pakistan.
Nawaz Sharif was convicted in the Al-Azizia Mills and Avenfield corruption cases in 2018. He served a seven-year imprisonment at Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat jail in the Al-Azizia Mills case before he was allowed to go to London in November 2019 on “medical grounds.”
In February 2020, the then Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)-led government had declared Nawaz Sharif an absconder, and later in the same year, an accountability court had declared him a proclaimed offender in the Toshakhana vehicles reference.