{"id":16405,"date":"2023-10-21T08:51:08","date_gmt":"2023-10-21T08:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/nawaz-sharif-returns-to-pakistan-after-4-years-of-self-imposed-exile\/"},"modified":"2023-10-21T08:51:08","modified_gmt":"2023-10-21T08:51:08","slug":"nawaz-sharif-returns-to-pakistan-after-4-years-of-self-imposed-exile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/nawaz-sharif-returns-to-pakistan-after-4-years-of-self-imposed-exile\/","title":{"rendered":"Nawaz Sharif returns to Pakistan after 4 years of self-imposed exile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p>Deposed prime minister and proclaimed offender Nawaz Sharif returned to Pakistan on Saturday afternoon after spending four years in self-imposed exile for medical treatment.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media  w-full  w-full  media--stretch  media--embed  \">\n<p><div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe title=\"\ud83d\udd34 LIVE Nawaz Sharif Addressed Homecoming Jalsa In Lahore | Dawn News English\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p62pDrh6WvA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The PML-N supremo\u2019s legal team including former law minister Senator Azam Tarar and party leaders are present at the airport to receive him.<\/p>\n<p>Former deputy mayor Zeeshan Naqvi was present at the airport along with the oath commissioner for signing legal documents. The legal team of Nawaz will go inside the plane to take his biometrics and signatures.<\/p>\n<p>Before boarding his flight, Nawaz said he was \u201chappy to return\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Nawaz is likely to face a host of legal challenges before embarking on his election campaign to rev up his party\u2019s prospects in the lead-up to elections due in Jan next year.<\/p>\n<p>Party leader Ishaq Dar said that Nawaz would arrive at Minar-i-Pakistan at 5pm today on schedule to address the gathering.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn a media channel, there is news that Mian Nawaz Sharif will first go to Jati Umra and will later go to Minar-i-Pakistan at 7pm. This news is not true,\u201d he said in a post on X (formerly Twitter).<\/p>\n<p>His party is rallying its base, urging supporters to converge on Minar-i-Pakistan in Lahore from around the country to greet their leader and showcase the undiminished popularity of the party, which has been declared \u2018irrelevant\u2019 by its rivals.<\/p>\n<p>Former finance minister and PML-N stalwart Ishaq Dar had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1782470\/nawaz-comes-out-of-exile-as-things-go-pml-ns-way\">confirmed<\/a> that the elder Sharif would fly from Dubai to Islamabad via a chartered plane on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Observers say the reason Nawaz is arriving in Islamabad instead of Lahore is that his touchdown in the capital was necessary to make bail, earlier <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1782055\">granted<\/a> by the Islamabad High Court on Oct 19.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m going back to Pakistan after four years today,\u201d Nawaz said today while speaking to the media at Dubai Airport. \u201cWhen I was leaving Pakistan and going abroad I had no feeling of happiness but today I am happy.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media  w-full  w-full  media--stretch  media--embed  \">\n<p><div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe title=\"Nawaz Sharif Speaks To Reporters At Dubai Airport | Developing | Dawn News English\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3vTW7s8OkPI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The ousted premier added that it would have been very good if the situation of the country was better today as compared to 2017.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI get very worried and disappointed seeing the situation in the country. The country that had to move forward is going backward now economically and unity-wise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Terming the situation as \u201cworrisome\u201d, Nawaz said there was still hope and \u201cwe should not let it slip from our hands as we are capable of fixing it because we spoilt it ourselves\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He said the country had to get back on its feet as nobody would lift us up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I remember Pakistan back then, I get hurt, we had said goodbye to the International Monetary Fund, electricity was cheap, the rupee was stable, there was employment, <em>roti<\/em> cost Rs4, a poor family\u2019s child went to school and medicines were also cheap.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><a id=\"throws-weight-behind-ecp\" href=\"#throws-weight-behind-ecp\" class=\"heading-permalink\" aria-hidden=\"true\" title=\"Permalink\"\/>Throws weight behind ECP<\/h2>\n<p>Nawaz said only the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) can decide when polls will be held, adding that it was the only competent authority and a fair election commission.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhatever date the ECP announces, everyone will [abide by it]. My priority is whatever the ECP says. Pakistan has a fair ECP today and I feel it will make the best decision with regards to the election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe process takes time. Some work is left. A census has been done. Delimitations have to be carried out. ECP has an eye on all these things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lamenting the treatment meted out to him in the past, Nawaz said he was the person who had gone through 150 court hearings. \u201cNot just me but also my daughter. She even got a clean chit. She had to get it. She didn\u2019t have a position during my government, not even an office.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said fake cases were not just filed against his family including former prime minister and his brother Shehbaz Sharif but also ex-interior minister Rana Sanaullah Khan and PML-N leader Hanif Abbasi.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI even said before leaving that I leave everything to Allah and I still continue doing that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nawaz smirked and said \u201cWe are the May 28 ones\u201d when asked about the May 9 violence allegedly carried out by the PTI.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan conducted nuclear tests on May 28, 1998, under the leadership of the then prime minister Nawaz.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deposed prime minister and proclaimed offender Nawaz Sharif returned to Pakistan on Saturday afternoon after spending four years in self-imposed exile for medical treatment. The PML-N supremo\u2019s legal team including former law minister Senator Azam Tarar and party leaders are present at the airport to receive him. Former deputy mayor Zeeshan Naqvi was present at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16406,"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.dawn.com\/large\/2023\/10\/211344177d053f8.png?r=134505","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[192],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16405","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=16405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}