LAHORE: Federal Minister Javed Latif of the PML-N has linked the holding of elections in the country to the the establishment of full court or parliamentary commission to provide justice to his party leader, Nawaz Sharif.

“If the full court other than the three-bench of the Supreme Court or the parliamentary commission gives justice (to Nawaz Sharif)... he will be in Pakistan and elections will be held,” Mr Latif told a press conference here on Monday.

He indirectly gave a reason for his party’s supreme leader’s decision not to return to the country till he got judicial relief.

Mr Sharif has been living in the United Kingdom since November 2019 where had gone for medical treatment for four weeks.

Although Sharif’s daughter Maryam Nawaz and some other senior leaders claimed that he was returning soon, Latif-like leaders link his return to judicial relief in the cases

Mr Sharif was facing before his departure to London on medical grounds.

Nawaz Sharif was serving a seven-year imprisonment in the Alazizia Mills case before he secured a four-week bail from the Lahore High Court on medical grounds.

Mr Latif also demanded action against the ‘facilitators’ of PTI Chairman Imran Khan.

He also demanded action against those involved in the judicial murder of former prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.

Published in Dawn, May 9th, 2023