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The PML-N on Tuesday expressed anger over interim Interior Minister Sarfraz Bugti\u2019s remarks regarding PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif being arrested upon return, prompting the caretaker government to release a clarification.<\/p>\n
The discourse comes as the elder Sharif prepares to return to Pakistan<\/a> on October 21. Nawaz departed the country in November 2019 for medical treatment following his conviction in a corruption case.<\/p>\n He has not returned since and faces multiple cases in Pakistan. He was deemed an absconder the following February. Later in 2020, courts declared him as a proclaimed offender. On August 10, PML-N President Shehbaz Sharif was asked about the possibility of the caretaker government \u201ccreating any issues\u201d for Nawaz upon his return, to which he had replied that the elder Sharif would \u201cface the law\u201d<\/a>. \u201cNawaz Sharif will, God willing, come to Pakistan and face the law, there are no two opinions on it,\u201d the PML-N president had said in London later in August<\/a>.<\/p>\n In an interview on ARY News<\/em> programme \u2018Khabar Meher Bokhari Kay Saath\u2019 last night, Bugti was asked whether the government would arrest Nawaz if he failed to procure bail from courts.<\/p>\n In response, the interior minister said Nawaz would be arrested if he failed to get bail.<\/p>\n \u201cAs you know, the airport is a sensitive area, a mob would not be allowed there \u2026 so if he does not get bail from the courts then we would have to arrest him,\u201d he replied.<\/p>\n