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Sharif summons PML-N leaders to discuss legal challenges

Sharif summons PML-N leaders to discuss legal challenges

TIL Desk/World/Lahore/ Ousted Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif has summoned key aides to London for an important meeting of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) this week to devise strategies to deal with legal challenges.

The PML-N president will consult senior party leaders to discuss his possible return to the country ahead of the next hearing on October 19 of corruption references filed against him and his children in connection with a Supreme Court-mandated inquiry in the Panamagate case about offshore wealth that resulted in his disqualification.

In addition, Sharif will be updated regarding the findings of a committee on the issue of changing the text of the Khatm-e-Nabuwwat (finality of the prophethood) avowal in the Elections Bill 2017, it was learnt.

The leaders include PML-N chairman and Leader of the House in Senate Raja Zafarul Haq, federal ministers Khawaja Asif, Khawaja Saad Rafique, Mushahidullah Khan, Ahsan Iqbal and Zahid Hamid and Senator Pervaiz Rashid.

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