Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PMLN) senior leader and Economic Affairs Minister Sardar Ayaz Sadiq has claimed on Tuesday that party chief Nawaz Sharif will return home in January 2023.
The PML-N leader made this claim while speaking on a program. The PML-N supremo has been living in self-imposed exile in London for the past four years.
Nawaz Sharif will allot tickets to the candidates for the next general elections, the PML-N leader said that the elections in the country will be held in 2023.
“It looks like the assemblies will dissolve between March-June 2023,” he predicted.
The PML-N supremo left for London in November 2019 following his illness as the then Prime Minister Imran Khan allowed him to go abroad for treatment.
In 2018, the Accountability Court sentenced Nawaz Sharif to 7 years in prison in the Al-Azizia Steel Mills corruption reference, while he was also sentenced to a total of 11 years in prison and a fine of 8 million pounds (1.3 billion rupees). Reference to Avonfield Properties.
Subsequently, in 2019, the Lahore High Court (LHC) suspended his sentence and allowed Nawaz to go abroad for treatment.
Timeline of Nawaz Sharif case
- Between 21 and 22 October 2019, Nawaz Sharif’s health worsened and he was shifted to the hospital.
- On October 25, Nawaz Sharif was granted bail on medical grounds in the Chaudhry Sugar Mills case.
- On October 26, Nawaz Sharif was granted interim bail on humanitarian grounds in the Al-Azizia reference.
- On October 26, Nawaz Sharif suffered a mild heart attack, Punjab Health Minister Yasmin Rashid confirmed the development.
- On October 29, Nawaz Sharif’s sentence in the Al-Azizia reference was suspended for two months on medical grounds.
- He was discharged from Nawaz Sharif Services Hospital and transferred to Jati Amra.
- On November 8, Shahbaz Sharif requested the Interior Ministry to remove Nawaz Sharif’s name from the Exit Control List (ECL).
- On November 12, the federal cabinet gave conditional permission to Nawaz Sharif to leave the country.
- On November 14, the PML-N challenged the condition of the indemnity bond in the Lahore High Court.
- On November 16, the Lahore High Court allowed Nawaz Sharif to go abroad for treatment.
- On 19 November 2019, Nawaz Sharif left for London for his treatment.
