<p>Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo Nawaz Sharif will return to the country from London on October 21 to lead the party's political campaign in the upcoming elections, ending his over four years of self-imposed exile in the UK.</p>.<p>"Nawaz Sharif will return to Pakistan on October 21," his younger brother and former prime minister Shehbaz Sharif, who is currently in London, said on Tuesday.</p>.Nawaz to be PM again if party wins elections: Shehbaz Sharif.<p>The party founder would be given a grand welcome upon return, Shehbaz said in a statement after a meeting of the PML-N's top leadership chaired by Nawaz in London.</p>.<p>Nawaz, 73, had left for London in November 2019 after the Lahore High Court granted him four-week permission allowing him to go abroad for his treatment. But he never returned to Pakistan where he was convicted of corruption and jailed.</p>.<p>He was convicted in the Al-Azizia Mills and Avenfield corruption cases in 2018. He was serving a seven-year imprisonment at Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat jail in the Al-Azizia Mills case before he was allowed to proceed to London in 2019 on 'medical grounds'.</p>.<p>Shehbaz, 71, has previously said that Nawaz will be the next prime minister if the party returns to power in the general elections.</p>.<p>In August, Shehbaz said that his elder brother would return to Pakistan in September to face his pending court cases and lead the party's campaign for the general election.</p>.<p>However, the plan was changed after the Election Commission of Pakistan decided to conduct a fresh delimitation of Constituencies on the basis of the new census, delaying the general elections, which were scheduled to be held within the 90-day constitutional period since the August 9 dissolution of Parliament.</p>.<p>According to Geo News, the three-time prime minister's return was delayed till mid-October, not because of the ECP announcement but over the advice of party loyalists that September is too hot and severe for large-scale political gatherings, making mid-October a better time for return.</p>.<p>The decision to return around mid-October was taken after Shehbaz held meetings with the PML-N supremo when the former visited London in August.</p>.<p>In 2016, Nawaz stepped down as the prime minister after the Supreme Court disqualified him for life for concealing assets. His appeals against the conviction are currently pending in the relevant courts.</p>.<p>He was disqualified by the Supreme Court in 2017. In 2018, he became ineligible to hold public office for life after a Supreme Court verdict in the Panama Papers case.</p>.<p>He was expected to come back when his party came to power after Imran Khan was toppled in April last year but the expectation was not fulfilled.</p>.<p>However, his PML-N party maintained that he would come back before the election and lead the party. Sharif is considered a crowd-puller and a major force to bring voters to the polling stations. </p>
<p>Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo Nawaz Sharif will return to the country from London on October 21 to lead the party's political campaign in the upcoming elections, ending his over four years of self-imposed exile in the UK.</p>.<p>"Nawaz Sharif will return to Pakistan on October 21," his younger brother and former prime minister Shehbaz Sharif, who is currently in London, said on Tuesday.</p>.Nawaz to be PM again if party wins elections: Shehbaz Sharif.<p>The party founder would be given a grand welcome upon return, Shehbaz said in a statement after a meeting of the PML-N's top leadership chaired by Nawaz in London.</p>.<p>Nawaz, 73, had left for London in November 2019 after the Lahore High Court granted him four-week permission allowing him to go abroad for his treatment. But he never returned to Pakistan where he was convicted of corruption and jailed.</p>.<p>He was convicted in the Al-Azizia Mills and Avenfield corruption cases in 2018. He was serving a seven-year imprisonment at Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat jail in the Al-Azizia Mills case before he was allowed to proceed to London in 2019 on 'medical grounds'.</p>.<p>Shehbaz, 71, has previously said that Nawaz will be the next prime minister if the party returns to power in the general elections.</p>.<p>In August, Shehbaz said that his elder brother would return to Pakistan in September to face his pending court cases and lead the party's campaign for the general election.</p>.<p>However, the plan was changed after the Election Commission of Pakistan decided to conduct a fresh delimitation of Constituencies on the basis of the new census, delaying the general elections, which were scheduled to be held within the 90-day constitutional period since the August 9 dissolution of Parliament.</p>.<p>According to Geo News, the three-time prime minister's return was delayed till mid-October, not because of the ECP announcement but over the advice of party loyalists that September is too hot and severe for large-scale political gatherings, making mid-October a better time for return.</p>.<p>The decision to return around mid-October was taken after Shehbaz held meetings with the PML-N supremo when the former visited London in August.</p>.<p>In 2016, Nawaz stepped down as the prime minister after the Supreme Court disqualified him for life for concealing assets. His appeals against the conviction are currently pending in the relevant courts.</p>.<p>He was disqualified by the Supreme Court in 2017. In 2018, he became ineligible to hold public office for life after a Supreme Court verdict in the Panama Papers case.</p>.<p>He was expected to come back when his party came to power after Imran Khan was toppled in April last year but the expectation was not fulfilled.</p>.<p>However, his PML-N party maintained that he would come back before the election and lead the party. Sharif is considered a crowd-puller and a major force to bring voters to the polling stations. </p>