Benazir wants Nawaz to make a joint return to Pak

With the Sharif brothers making a second attempt to return home, former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has indirectly invited Nawaz Sharif to come back to the country with her.

Lahore/Islamabad, Aug 2 : With the Sharif brothers making a second attempt to return home, former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has indirectly invited Nawaz Sharif to come back to the country with her.

The Pakistan People's Party (PPP) chief told Geo TV that it would be better if she and Sharif returned together to Pakistan.

This comes at a time when both Nawaz and his younger brother Shahbaz Sharif are again trying to comeback to Pakistan from their seven-year exile on the force of a prospective favourable ruling by an emboldened Supreme Court.

And, with legal experts maintaining that exile of a citizen is "alien to the Pakistani law and the Constitution," the Sharif brothers may succeed in returning to Pakistan this time.

"No citizen of Pakistan can be banished from the country under the prevailing law and the Constitution. However, he or she can be stopped from going out of Pakistan subject to the law," a legal expert said.

Shahbaz Sharif had attempted to return to Pakistan in 2004 following a Supreme Court judgment that was handed down on his petition, but the-then executive had foiled it.

He was sent back to Saudi Arabia as soon as he arrived at the Lahore Airport on May 11, 2004.

Now, Shahbaz has filed a fresh plea in the Supreme Court, which is being considered as one of many extremely important constitutional petitions because of its political significance ahead of the forthcoming general elections.

ANI