Nawaz Sharif to be Pakistan premier if PML-N returns to power: PM Shehbaz

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s PM Shehbaz Sharif said on Sunday that Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo Nawaz Sharif will be the PM of the country if the party returns to power in the next general election. Speaking on the Geo News programme, Shehbaz said the three-time former PM – who has been living in self-imposed exile in London since 2019 – will return to the country in the next few weeks.

The premier said Nawaz Sharif, 73, would face the law upon his return to Pakistan. Nawaz Sharif was disqualified in 2017 by the Supreme Court. In 2018, he became ineligible to hold public office for life after a SC verdict in the Panama Papers case. Before his departure to London, Nawaz Sharif was serving a seven-year jail term in the Al-Azizia Mills corruption case.
Shehbaz Sharif said that a notification of the dissolution of the National Assembly will be sent to President Arif Alvi a few days ahead of the completion of the tenure at 12 midnight on August 12. He also maintained that the PML-N would try to make seat adjustments with allies in the general elections, adding that the party would field its candidates in the constituencies where they could not reach a consensus.