Nawaz Sharif’s passport will be cancelled on Feb 16: Shaikh Rashid

Minister for Interior Sheikh Rashid Ahmed on Wednesday announced that PML-N supremo and former prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s passport will be cancelled on February 16.

Speaking to reporters in Islamabad, he said the opposition had been “exposed” as money launderers and people who obtained iqamas because they were not honest with the country.

Nawaz has been living in London since last year after he was allowed to leave the country on account of medical treatment.

Earlier this month, Adviser to the Prime Minister on Accountability and Interior Mirza Shahzad Akbar had said that United Kingdom authorities had been asked to deport the convicted former prime minister from their country.

The PML-N supremo was granted an eight-week bail on medical grounds in October 2019 and a month later he was allowed to travel abroad for treatment for four weeks. The government maintains that Nawaz was permitted on condition he would share details of treatment which he didn’t do.

It may be added here that the deposed premier has been declared proclaimed offender by Islamabad High Court and an accountability for failing to appear before the bench.