Former PM Nawaz Sharif set to return to Pakistan; says his party can set things right

Ahead of his return to Pakistan after four years, former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on October 21 deplored the “very chaotic” situation back home and expressed confidence that his Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) party was “competent” to take the cash-strapped country out of the present crisis.

Ahead of his return to Pakistan after four years, former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on October 21 deplored the "very chaotic" situation back home and expressed confidence that his Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) party was "competent" to take the cash-strapped country out of the present crisis.

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“The 73-year-old PML-N supremo will fly in from Dubai to Islamabad on a chartered plane,” former Finance Minister and PML-N stalwart Ishaq Dar said.

“After staying an hour or so in Islamabad, he will leave for Lahore to address a rally at Minar-i-Pakistan,” Mr. Dar told journalists on October 20.

Talking to reporters at the Dubai airport, he deplored the existing situation of the country which in his words was far worse than in 2017 when he was disqualified by the Supreme Court and later convicted by an accountability court in two cases of corruption.

“The situation is not better than 2017...and it pains me to see all this that our country has gone back instead of going forward,” he said, adding that it was time to think about why the country came to the situation.

“The situation in Pakistan is very chaotic and that is very worrying,” Nawaz was quoted as saying by Geo News. “We are competent enough to solve the problems of the country,” he said before his departure from Dubai airport.