PML-N leadership has been tasked to welcome Nawaz Sharif who will arrive in Lahore from London on October 15 via a private airline flight, sources said.

Maryam Nawaz is in charge of the preparations for holding a party gathering to welcome Sharif upon his return to the country.

The party leaders have been instructed to ensure the maximum participation of the workers in the gathering.

It is pertinent to mention that PML-N leaders had been saying that Sharif would return to Pakistan until there was “zero risk” while apparently speaking about the legal complications.

“Nawaz Sharif will return to the country,” PML-N’s Khawaja Asif said in an interview with Geo News on Aaj Shahzeb Khanzada Kay Sath on August 15.

“We don’t want that someone would be settling a score with him or the judiciary would give such a decision. Therefore, he [Sharif] will be brought back to the country after all risks against them will be zeroed,” he added.

Columnist Javed Chaudhry in an interview with Aaj News also expressed similar views. On August 4, he told anchorperson Shaukat Piracha on Rubaroo that Sharif would not come back before the current chief justice of the Supreme Court retires.

“Nawaz Sharif is waiting for September 16. He thinks he will not get justice while Umar Ata Bandial is the Chief Justice of Pakistan. However, I think he will not return even after September 16, as he sees no favourable conditions. He wants the judiciary and the establishment to apologise to him,” he said.