Pakistan Former PM Nawaz Sharif returns home after four years of exile in London
Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif returned to Pakistan on Saturday after spending four years of self-imposed exile in London
Islamabad: Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif returned to Pakistan on Saturday after spending four years of self-imposed exile in London.
In a post on X, PML-N said, “Quaid PMLN, Muhammad Nawaz Sharif reaches Dubai airport to board the “Umeed-e-Pakistan” flight for his historic journey back to Pakistan. Daikho daikho kon aaya!!”
“Today I am going to Pakistan after four years and I am feeling very happy with the grace of Allah,” Sharif told reporters before leaving for Islamabad from Dubai. He had arrived in the United Arab Emirates on Friday from Saudi Arabia after traveling there last week from London.
He further expressed worry over the economic situation of Pakistan, saying the country is going backwards “economically and unity-wise”. “When 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, roti cost Rs 4, a poor family’s child went to school and medicines were also cheap,” he said.
Nawaz left Pakistan in November 2019, two years after he stepped down after being convicted in a graft case.
He was serving a seven-year imprisonment at Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat jail in the Al-Azizia Mills case when he was allowed to proceed to London in 2019 on “medical grounds”.
He was convicted in the Al-Azizia Mills and Avenfield corruption cases in 2018 and was disqualified by the Supreme Court for life for concealing assets.
Ms Kalinga