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Shehbaz Sharif off-loaded from Doha-bound foreign flight
Immigration officials inform opposition leader their system needs to be updated for him to leave Pakistan
Opposition Leader in National Assembly and Pakistan Muslim League-N (PMLN) president Shehbaz Sharif was off-loaded from a flight leaving for Doha, Qatar, early Saturday morning, private TV channels reported.
On Friday, the Lahore High Court allowed the opposition leader, who is a cancer patient, to fly abroad on medical grounds. Shehbaz Sharif was scheduled to leave for Doha from the Allama Iqbal International Airport through a foreign airline.
After spending some days in quarantine in Doha, he had planned to fly to London where he was to consult his doctors. The airline issued Shehbaz Sharif a boarding card, as he showed up to the airport early Saturday morning.
National
May 8, 2021
LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-N (PMLN) spokesperson Marriyum Aurangzeb has said the name of party president and opposition leader in the National Assembly Shahbaz Sharif was never on the exit control list (ECL).
In a statement issued here on Friday, in response to Information Minister Fawad Chaudhryâs statement, she said Prime Minister Imran Khan added the names of his political opponents, including Shahbaz Sharif, in the blacklist to take political revenge. âShahbaz Sharif s name has been included in the blacklist on the basis of money-laundering allegations of billions, but nothing has been proved in any court,â she added.
After the ouster of Nawaz Sharif, the former PM's younger brother is likely to take over the reins in September. Shahbaz Sharif is believed to be more acceptable to Pakistan's powerful military establishment than Nawaz.
National
May 8, 2021
LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-N (PMLN) spokesperson Marriyum Aurangzeb has said the name of party president and opposition leader in the National Assembly Shehbaz Sharif was never on the exit control list (ECL).
In a statement issued here on Friday, in response to Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry’s statement, she said Prime Minister Imran Khan added the names of his political opponents, including Shahbaz Sharif, in the blacklist to take political revenge. “Shehbaz Sharif s name has been included in the blacklist on the basis of money-laundering allegations of billions, but nothing has been proved in any court,” she added.