The news of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif being invited to spend the final days of Ramadan in Saudi Arabia as a royal guest to perform the pilgrimage has invited sharp criticism from the people of Pakistan.
Since Wednesday morning, #SaudiArabia is the top trend on Twitter in Pakistan as Twitterati took to the popular social media platform to urge the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman to deny entry to the former prime minister of Pakistan to the Kingdom.
The former disgraced three-time Prime Minister of Pakistan has been sentenced to 10 years in prison on corruption charges related to four luxury London flats. The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) court handed down the verdict after a series of hearings. Sharif was ousted and disqualified from holding office by the Supreme Court in July 2017, and convicted in absentia a year later.
Nawaz Sharif left for London on November 19, 2019, after being granted temporary bail by the Islamabad High Court (IHC) for a seven-year sentence on corruption charges. Since then Nawaz Sharif is in a self-imposed exile in London on medical grounds. He will depart for Saudi Arabia along with his daughter Maryam Nawaz and other family members via a special plane on April 11.
The Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz (PMLN) supremo would spend the last 10 days of the holy month of Ramazan in Medinah and Makkah. However, the final schedule of Sharif’s visit to the Kingdom has not been announced yet.
There have been speculations that Nawaz Sharif may use this opportunity to return to Pakistan, DubaiNews.tv has learned.
Nawaz Sharif, whose Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) is the main party in Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM), was sacked by the Supreme Court in 2017 and, two years later, left for London for medical treatment.
While there has been no official confirmation from Sharif or his party regarding his plans to return to Pakistan, his trip to Saudi Arabia as a royal guest has raised interest in his potential political comeback.
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