RSSNewsletterSiteMapFeedback

Home · Weather · Forum · Learning Chinese · Jobs · Shopping
Search This Site
China | International | Business | Government | Environment | Olympics/Sports | Travel/Living in China | Culture/Entertainment | Books & Magazines | Health
Home / International / International -- News Tools: Save | Print | E-mail | Most Read
Exiled former Pakistani PM Sharif returns home
Adjust font size:

The exiled former prime minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif arrived in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore on Sunday, local TV channel DAWN NEWS reported.

 

Boarding a special plane from Medina, a western Saudi Arabian city, Sharif returned home with his wife Kulsoom Nawaz, younger brother Shahbaz Sharif and other family members, said the report.

 

Around 75 Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leaders and thousands of PML-N supporters received Sharif at the airport.

 

Some 5,000 security personnel are deployed in Lahore as a precautionary security measure and the law and order situation is under control, said the report.

 

According to a plan unveiled earlier by the party, Sharif will be taken to Data Sahib shrine where he will offer prayers. Then Sharif will leave for his residence in Raiwind, a city near Lahore.

 

Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz met Sharif in Riyadh in the presence of Saudi intelligence chief Prince Miqren bin Abdul Aziz late Friday, the Saudi Press Agency reported, without mentioning details of the meeting.

 

Sources with PML-N Friday disclosed that Sharif would discuss with Abdullah plans for his return to Pakistan in time for general elections.

 

According to the time schedule unveiled by the Election Commission of Pakistan, Nov. 26 is the last date for political parties to file nomination papers for National Assembly and Provincial Assemblies seats.

 

Local media reported that the government had no plan to obstruct Sharif's return but banned PML-N leaders from taking part in rally or procession on the arrival of Sharif.

 

The All Parties Democratic Movement (APDM), comprising around 30 opposition parties, on Saturday announced that it would boycott the general elections unless the government restored the country to pre-Nov. 3 situation by Wednesday.

 

Raja Zafarul Haq, chairman of PML-N which is part of APDM, asked other opposition parties to endorse the APDM decision and boycott the general elections.

 

However, PML-N leader Ishaq Dar has said earlier that Nawaz, Shahbaz and Kulsoom Nawaz would file their nomination papers for general elections on Monday.

 

(Xinhua News Agency November 26, 2007)

Tools: Save | Print | E-mail | Most Read
Comment
Username   Password   Anonymous
 


China Archives
Related >>
- Sharif Files Petition in Supreme Court Against Exile
- Sharif Return Ends in Deportation
- Former Pakistani PM to Be Deported After Return
- Former PM Sharif's Plane Lands in Pakistan
Most Viewed >>
-Chinese compatriots withdraw from Chad
-Gabon's Jean Ping elected as AU Commission chief
-Baghdad market blasts kill 72
-World Bank chief to assess floods in Zambia
-Kenya's rivals agree to end deadly violence
> Korean Nuclear Talks
> Reconstruction of Iraq
> Middle East Peace Process
> Iran Nuclear Issue
> 6th SCO Summit Meeting
Links
- China Development Gateway
- Foreign Ministry
- Network of East Asian Think-Tanks
- China-EU Association
- China-Africa Business Council
- China Foreign Affairs University
- University of International Relations
- Institute of World Economics & Politics
- Institute of Russian, East European & Central Asian Studies
- Institute of West Asian & African Studies
- Institute of Latin American Studies
- Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies
- Institute of Japanese Studies
SiteMap | About Us | RSS | Newsletter | Feedback

Copyright © China.org.cn. All Rights Reserved E-mail: webmaster@china.org.cn Tel: 86-10-88828000 京ICP证 040089号