ISLAMABAD, Nov 3: Interior Minister Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao on Thursday said all family members of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif would get new passports within shortest possible time.

Talking to Dawn on Thursday, the minister said the government had decided that any member of the Sharif family who required a new passport would be facilitated.

He said the Pakistani consulate in Saudi Arabia had been directed to entertain such applications from the exiled Sharif family so that travel documents could be issued to them as soon as possible.

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