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Former prime minister Shehbaz Sharif on Friday said PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif would return to Pakistan in October.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe held consultations with the senior leadership of the party and we have decided that our quaid<\/em> [leader] Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif will return to Pakistan in October,\u201d he told media persons in London.<\/p>\n Nawaz flanked Shehbaz and listened quietly as the latter made the announcement.<\/p>\n Shehbaz did not specify a date when Nawaz would return. However, Geo News<\/em>, citing informed sources, reported<\/a> that the elder Sharif\u2019s date of return would be October 15. When Dawn.com<\/em> reached out to party leaders earlier, PML-N Senator Afnanullah Khan said \u201cno date has been finalised yet\u201d.<\/p>\n Shehbaz landed at Heathrow earlier this week to meet his elder brother, discuss key political developments in the run-up to the general election and set a date for the party supremo\u2019s return to Pakistan.<\/p>\n The elder Sharif departed<\/a> the country in November 2019 for medical treatment following his conviction in a corruption case. He has not returned since and faces multiple cases in Pakistan. He was deemed an absconder<\/a> the following February. Later in 2020, courts declared him as a proclaimed<\/a> offender<\/a>.<\/p>\n Earlier this month, reports of Nawaz\u2019s impending return once again started making the rounds, but no official announcement was made from the PML-N supremo himself.<\/p>\n