KARACHI, Dec 8: Former prime minister and chief of the Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) Mian Nawaz Sharif will arrive in the city on Dec 13 to express solidarity with the Sindh High Court judges who had refused to take oath under the Provisional Constitution Order.

During his two-day visit to Karachi and Hyderabad, Mr Sharif is also scheduled to meet those judges of the superior judiciary who had refused to take oath under the 1999 PCO.

Sindh president of the PML-N Salim Zia told Dawn that the former premier would arrive at the Karachi airport on Thursday afternoon where PML-N leaders and workers would welcome him.

He will go to the Quaid’s mausoleum to offer fateha straight from the airport.

This will be his first visit to Karachi after returning to the country from a seven-year exile.

Mr Zia said that after offering fateha at the mausoleum, Mr Sharif would visit the residences of the deposed judges of the SHC to express solidarity with them.

Later, he will go to the residence of Justice (retd) Fakhruddin G. Ebrahim and in the evening he will meet senior columnists.

On Dec 14, Mr Sharif is scheduled to meet former Chief Justice of Pakistan Saeeduzzaman Siddiqui at his residence where other judges, who did not take the oath in 1999, would be present.

Later, he would go to Hyderabad to meet party leaders and workers and hold meetings with some nationalist leaders.

He would return to Lahore the same day, Mr Zia added.