{"id":11491,"date":"2023-10-06T16:13:07","date_gmt":"2023-10-06T16:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/nawazs-return-on-october-21-confirmed-shehbaz-the-express-tribune\/"},"modified":"2023-10-06T16:13:07","modified_gmt":"2023-10-06T16:13:07","slug":"nawazs-return-on-october-21-confirmed-shehbaz-the-express-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/nawazs-return-on-october-21-confirmed-shehbaz-the-express-tribune\/","title":{"rendered":"Nawaz&#8217;s return on October 21 confirmed: Shehbaz | The Express Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<strong class=\"location-names\"><br \/>\nLAHORE:<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thrice ousted former premier Nawaz Sharif will return to Pakistan on October 21 and face the law and Constitution, said Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President and former prime minister Shehbaz Sharif on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the media in Lahore, Shehbaz said that his party&#8217;s legal team had cleared Nawaz, who has been residing in London in self-imposed exile since 2019, to return to Pakistan.<\/p>\n<div data-oembed-url=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pmlndigitalpk\/status\/1710237610998972462\">\n<blockquote align=\"center\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p dir=\"rtl\" lang=\"ur\">\u0633\u0627\u0628\u0642 \u0648\u0632\u06cc\u0631\u0627\u0639\u0638\u0645 \u0627\u0648\u0631 \u067e\u0627\u06a9\u0633\u062a\u0627\u0646 \u0645\u0633\u0644\u0645 \u0644\u06cc\u06af (\u0646) \u06a9\u06d2 \u0635\u062f\u0631 \u0634\u06c1\u0628\u0627\u0632 \u0634\u0631\u06cc\u0641 \u0627\u06c1\u0645 \u067e\u0631\u06cc\u0633 \u06a9\u0627\u0646\u0641\u0631\u0646\u0633 \u06a9\u0631 \u0631\u06c1\u06d2 \u06c1\u06cc\u06ba <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eymOAB0mhM\">https:\/\/t.co\/eymOAB0mhM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 PMLN DIGITAL (@pmlndigitalpk) <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pmlndigitalpk\/status\/1710237610998972462?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 6, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>Nawaz left for London in the middle of his seven-year jail term on medical grounds. He has since been declared a proclaimed offender in the Avenfield and Al Aziza graft cases for his continuous <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/tribune.com.pk\/story\/2378165\/nawaz-seeks-acquittal-as-dars-arrest-warrant-suspended\">absence<\/a> from legal proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier today, a fresh medical <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/tribune.com.pk\/story\/2439612\/nawaz-still-suffers-from-chest-pain-says-report-submitted-in-lhc\">report<\/a> was submitted before the Lahore High Court (LHC) stating that the PML-N supremo would require &#8220;frequent follow-up investigations&#8221; for &#8220;some residual anginal symptoms&#8221; in London and Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to respectfully say that you shouldn\u2019t ask if he is coming or not, this is confirmed now,\u201d asserted Shehbaz.<\/p>\n<p>The PML-N stalwart had begun his address by speaking about the 16-month tenure of the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) coalition government led by his party and recalled the challenges faced during his time in the premier&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/tribune.com.pk\/story\/2439581\/pml-n-snubs-talk-of-nawazs-return-delay\">PML-N snubs talk of Nawaz\u2019s return delay<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He referred to floods, inflation, protests and the risk of default that his government had faced.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat would have happened if Pakistan had defaulted?\u201d he asked, outlining the \u201cconsequential impacts\u201d of such a situation. \u201cBut God helped us avert default and I am thankful to Nawaz for standing by us,&#8221; added Shehbaz.<\/p>\n<p>The former premier further said that if his party chief had told &#8220;us to save our politics, I would have resigned&#8221;. Nawaz told us to take up the challenge and save the country instead, he said.<\/p>\n<p>He referred to the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) and making the country an atomic as examples of Nawaz&#8217;s contributions to the country while lamenting &#8220;painful events overturned Pakistan&#8217;s journey of growth&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Shehbaz asserted that in 2017-18 the PML-N had won the elections but the results &#8220;were changed in massive rigging and a pre-prepared model was introduced to ruin the country&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>But now, the journey of prosperity will resume with Nawaz&#8217;s arrival, claimed Shehbaz, adding that the PML-N supremo will share his plan for the country&#8217;s future at Minar-e-Pakistan on October 21.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async defer crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&#038;version=v5.0&#038;appId=419051588770002&#038;autoLogAppEvents=1\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: Thrice ousted former premier Nawaz Sharif will return to Pakistan on October 21 and face the law and Constitution, said Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President and former prime minister Shehbaz Sharif on Friday. Speaking to the media in Lahore, Shehbaz said that his party&#8217;s legal team had cleared Nawaz, who has been residing in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.tribune.com.pk\/media\/images\/shehbazpresserscreen1696598390-0\/shehbazpresserscreen1696598390-0.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-updates-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}