Nawaz Sharif likely to jet off to London tomorrow

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Nawaz Sharif will be back in Pakistan in few weeks: PML-N

Former three-time prime minister and PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif is likely to travel to London for his medical checkup.

Sources said that the former premier is likely to jet off to London tomorrow for his medical checkup.

They said the the PML-N supremo has decided to fly to the UK on the instructions of the doctors. Duration of his stay in London will be decided after consultation with physicians.

Nawaz Sharif may also travel to Saudi Arabia for Umrah after the medical checkup.

It should be noted that after staying abroad in self-exile for more than four years, Nawaz Sharif had returned home on October 21 last year.

Earlier this week, the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) had requested the acquittal of former prime minister in the Toshakhana vehicle reference.

The National Accountability Bureau had submitted the compliance report on including Nawaz Sharif in investigation in a reference related to Toshakhana vehicles.

The NAB report said that the Saudi government had given the car to the then prime minister Nawaz Sharif as a gift in 1997.

It further stated that in 2008, the then prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani offered Nawaz Sharif to buy a car. To which, Nawaz Sharif bought the car from the federal transport pool and not from Toshakhana and that the former prime minister did not make the payment for the car from a fake bank account.

Nawaz Sharif deposited the gifted car in the Toshakhana and at the time of purchase, the car was not part of the Toshakhana, the report added.

NAB officials said, in the report, that the accountability court can acquit the former prime minister Nawaz Sharif in the Toshakhana reference.