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On Friday, Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif pushed his brother, the late Nawaz Sharif, to run for reelection as the country’s leader for a fourth time.
Speaking at the PML-N’s central general council meeting, Sharif stated that he was awaiting the arrival of his older brother in Pakistan before calling the party meeting to return the PML-N’s president to him.
Nawaz Sharif, a former prime minister of Pakistan, has been living in self-imposed exile in London since November 2019 for medical reasons. The meeting was held because the election commission’s sword was dangling, the prime minister continued.
According to Geo News, Premier Shehbaz assumed control of the PML-N after his predecessor, three-term prime minister Nawaz, was declared ineligible and forbidden from serving in any party office by the Supreme Court.
When Nawaz Sharif comes back to Pakistan, “you will see that the political landscape will change,” claimed PM Shehbaz.
The Supreme Court Review of Judgements and Orders Act 2023, which cleared the first hurdle for Nawaz Sharif to use his right to appeal against their lifetime disqualifications within 60 days, was signed by Pakistan President Arif Alvi a few weeks before the time of this announcement.
With the passage of this new law, an appeal may now be lodged against a court’s judgment in situations covered by Article 184(3). Samaa News reports that the law now also relates to earlier judgments. Nawaz Sharif was dismissed by the Pakistan Supreme Court in the Panama Papers case on July 28, 2017.
Due to his concealment of unpaid wages from his son in the Panama case, the supreme court permanently barred him from holding any public office. An individual banned under Articles 62 and 63 cannot serve as the leader of a political party, the court ruled on petitions challenging the Elections Act 2017 a year later, according to Pakistani news outlet Geo News.
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