LAHORE: Three-time former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is all set to become the president of his party PML-N, seven years after he was disqualified by the apex court from holding any public post, the party announced here on Friday.
A Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader said Nawaz (74) will be elected president on May 11 in a meeting of the party leadership.
PML-N’s Punjab president Rana Sanaullah told a press conference that a decision to make Nawaz Sharif president of the party again had been taken at a party meeting. “A resolution was passed at the party meeting today to make the elder Sharif PML-N president to undo the injustice meted out to him (Nawaz) in 2017 by the Supreme Court,” Sanaullah said. Nawaz is currently on a five-day private visit to China.
“Nawaz Sharif was removed from the party chief’s office through a conspiracy. Now, he has been acquitted in all (corruption) cases, he should again take up the party’s reins,” Sanaullah said.