PML-N leader Khawaja Asif has said that party supremo Nawaz Sharif would return to Pakistan until there was \u201czero risk\u201d while apparently speaking about the legal complications. \u201cNawaz Sharif will return to the country,\u201d he said in an interview with a private news channel on Monday. \u201cWe don\u2019t want that someone would be settling a score with him or the judiciary would give such a decision. Therefore, he [Nawaz] will be brought back to the country after all risks against them will be zeroed.\u201d Former prime minister Shehbaz Sharif to some extent also spoke in similar lines while talking to a private news channel. He said on August 10 that his elder brother would return to the country \u201cnext month\u201d. Meanwhile, Khawaja Asif denied rumours of elections delay after the appointment of Anwaarul Kakar as the caretaker prime minister. But he maintained his stance that general elections could be put off till next for which he blamed the time taken by the country\u2019s top electoral authority for drawing new boundaries after the Council of Common Interests notification regarding the digital census of 2023. When asked if Kakar will promote the establishment\u2019s alleged motto of poll delay, the former defence minister replied that the caretaker prime minister meet the establishment due to the political instability in Balochistan but he has no such terms with the establishment. There was no truth to rumours of elections delay after Kakar\u2019s appointment as the interim prime minister, he said. \u201cI believe that elections will be held in February,\u201d Asif said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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