Nawaz Sharif to return to Pakistan after Ramazan

Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his family are planning to return home by the end of November after celebrating Ramazan in Saudi Arabia, sources said.

Lahore, Aug 24 : Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his family are planning to return home by the end of November after celebrating Ramazan in Saudi Arabia, sources said.

Nawaz said to have held a meeting with his family members before the Supreme Court gave its ruling on his petition, and it was decided that the Sharif family would first go to Saudi Arabia to perform Umrah, and then spend the last two weeks of Ramazan in Mecca.

The Sharif family also decided to call on the Saudi royal family to thank them for their hospitality, sources added.

However, a final decision on the Sharif family's return to Pakistan would be taken by the PML-N Central Executive Committee (CEC) meeting to be held in London in the first week of September.

Nawaz's eldest son, Hussain Nawaz, daughter Maryam Nawaz and son-in-law Capt (retired) Muhammad Safdar would leave for Jeddah from London on August 30 to make arrangements for the family's stay in Saroor Palace, sources said.

PML-N Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Muhammad Mehdi said the party workers wanted the Sharif brothers to return to Pakistan at the earliest, but the party would not take a hasty decision, the Daily Times reported.

He said that PML-N Chairman Raja Zafar ul-Haq would hold a meeting of the party's CEC and the central working committee in the next few days to draw a strategy for the Sharifs' to return to the country.

Mehdi said the CEC and CWC meetings would also discuss the provincial-level arrangements for giving Nawaz and Shahbaz Sharif a warm welcome at the Lahore Airport.

ANI