Shehbaz, accompanied by a group of senior leaders of his Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) party, travelled to London on a private trip
The 72-year-old three-time premier, against whom several corruption cases were launched by the government of former prime minister Imran Khan, had left for London in November 2019 after the Lahore High Court granted him four-week permission allowing him to go abroad for his treatment.
Pakistan People's Party (PPP) and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) — the two main political parties — have been alternatively in power when the military was not ruling the country. The powerful Army has ruled the coup-prone country for more than half of its 75 plus years of existence.
The Pakistani High Commission in London has also been directed to start work on the renewal of the passports of the PML-N leaders, Geo TV reported.
Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will return to the country after Eid on diplomatic passport, sources said.
While giving the example set by former Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's resignation as per the Indian Constitution at a time when his government failed to win a confidence vote in the Lok Sabha (India's lower house) by a single vote, Maryam hit out at Imran's "planning and plotting".
Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President and Leader of Opposition in National Assembly Shehbaz Sharif, 70, who is the Opposition’s candidate for the new prime minister, will announce his possible government priorities after taking the oath, The Express Tribune newspaper reported.
Pakistan News Live Updates, Pakistan Live News: National Assembly Deputy Speaker Qasim Suri had on Sunday dismissed the no-confidence motion against the Imran Khan-led government, terming it a contradiction of Article 5 of the Constitution.
If the no-confidence motion against Imran Khan succeeds, Nawaz Sharif's brother Shehbaz Sharif of the Pakistan Muslim League (N) will be a top contender for the post of prime minister.
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan addressing the nation said that his government's policy has not been anti-India and anti-America but he talked about how foreign forces are behind the current political crisis in the country.
Reports say that Pakistan's top military brass is now engaging with Imran Khan and the opposition parties to get out of the current political crisis.
If Imran Khan loses the no-trust vote, which according to the current numbers in the national assembly, seems a tough task for him, then Leader of Opposition Shehbaz Sharif may claim stake to form the government, since the united opposition are having the numbers.
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan is also facing a rebellion by his about two dozen lawmakers and allied parties. No prime minister in Pakistan's history has ever been ousted through a no-confidence motion, and Khan is the third premier to face the challenge.
In the video, Pakistan Interior Minister and Imran Khan's close aide, Sheikh Rashid attempts to badmouth Sharif by pointing out how he disclosed Pakistan's terrorists and his whereabouts to India.
Speaking to reporters, Farrukh Habib made a sensational claim that "Nawaz Sharif obtained information (about Imran Khan) through Israeli spyware with the help of Narendra Modi".
Uddhav Thackeray said the meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi was personal and not political in nature.
Nawaz Sharif has accused the country's powerful military establishment of threatening his daughter Maryam Nawaz.
Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden had supported and funded ex-prime minister Nawaz Sharif, a former Pakistani diplomat who also served as a minister in the PML-N supremo's cabinet has alleged.
Pakistan's former prime minister Nawaz Sharif's mother Begum Shamim Akhtar died in London on Sunday.
Pakistani soldiers did not even have weapons during the 1999 Kargil war with India, former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said in a stunning claim on Sunday. The Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) supremo also said that a few generals were behind the war, and not the Army.
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