–PML-N president summons party meeting on Tuesday
Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President and the Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Shehbaz Sharif has said he will be returning to Pakistan on Sunday without getting any further treatment, ignoring doctors’ instructions.
Speaking to a private TV channel, the PML-N president said he would also hold a consultative meeting with senior members of his party on Tuesday.
Regarding the upcoming budget for the financial year 2019-20, he said a strategy would be formulated in a meeting with other opposition parties.
“Government’s incompetent policies have a devastating effect on the economy, whereas our ‘good’ intentions were mocked,” he added.
Shehbaz will return back to the country on June 9, the party’s spokesperson Marriyum Aurangzeb confirmed on Friday.
She stated that Shehbaz will arrive in Lahore on Sunday at 4: 50am.
On Thursday, his son Salman Shahbaz shared June 8 as the date of his father’s return on his Twitter account.
It is pertinent to mention here that Shehbaz’s defense counsel, in Ramzan Sugar Mills and Ashiana-i-Iqbal Housing Scheme cases against him, had given June 11 as the deadline to the court for his return.
On May 25, his defense counsel had told the court that his client was out of the country for medical reasons. The court was pleaded for a 14-day exemption from his personal appearance and a written application was filed to this effect.
Shahbaz was released on post-arrest bail in the housing scheme case, while Hamza was on pre-arrest bail in the sugar mills case.
All the accused persons had already been indicted in Ramzan Sugar Mills case. Shehbaz, Hamza and his brother Salman Shehbaz had been indicted for building a drainage system, a 10-km nullah for draining of water from the mill, by misusing the authority and misappropriating Rs21 millions of public funds for their benefit, for which they pleaded not guilty.
