LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President Shehbaz Sharif will chair the PML-N party meeting today to discuss the cabinet sub-committee’s decision.
Shehbaz Sharif is also scheduled to address a press conference at 3 pm after the party meeting where he would brief his brother Nawaz Sharif’s health.
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The meeting will be attended by Ahsan Iqbal, Marriyum Aurangzeb, Ayaz Sadiq, Atta Tarar and other party leaders.
Earlier on Wednesday, Federal Minister for Law Farogh Naseem, while addressing a press conference in Islamabad announced that it would allow the former prime minister Nawaz to go abroad for medical treatment for four weeks but after submitting surety bonds.
Farogh Naseem said, “This permission will be subject to Nawaz Sharif or Shehbaz Sharif submitting an indemnity bond to the tune of roughly Rs7-7.5 billion to the satisfaction of additional secretary to the Ministry of Interior.”
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PML-N, however, rejected the government’s offer made on medical grounds and to pay Rs 7 billion as surety bonds equivalent to the fines imposed on Nawaz by an accountability court in two corruption cases in which he was convicted.
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