Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President Nawaz Sharif arrived in London on Saturday night, marking exactly one year since he returned to Pakistan after nearly three years of self-imposed exile.
The three-time former prime minister is in the UK for medical treatment.
Welcome party started for Nawaz Sharif pic.twitter.com/3crpHj0nkA
— Shayan Ali (@ShayanA2307) October 26, 2024
The Chor Hunter strikes again. We caught Nawaz! pic.twitter.com/QYwtrOXVGV
— Shayan Ali (@ShayanA2307) October 26, 2024
Imran Khan’s supporters are throwing a party at Avenfield to welcome the corrupt and thief Nawaz Sharif !!🤩🔥pic.twitter.com/sVpjwodirM
— Nina𓅪 (@aechilla) October 26, 2024
Across from Sharif’s Avenfield flats, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) supporters gathered and voiced slogans against the ruling party’s leadership, leading to an exchange of harsh words between PML-N and PTI workers.
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According to PML-N sources, Sharif will remain in London for about three days before heading to the United States, where he plans to spend a week in private meetings. After arriving in Dubai on Friday, he spent a night with Hasnain Dar, son of Deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar. The 74-year-old leader is expected to spend time with his sons in London and continue with his medical treatments, according to a PML-N source.
Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz, will also likely travel to London in the first or second week of November and will visit Geneva with her father for a follow-up on her throat surgery at a local clinic.
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Nawaz returned to the country in October 2023 after a three-year self-imposed exile in the UK. He briefly landed in Islamabad, where he signed and filed appeals against the convictions for which he was jailed before he left the country in 2019.
After a few hours’ stay in the federal capital, the PML-N supremo flew to Lahore to kick-start his party’s campaign for the February 8 elections in a rally of thousands of his supporters.