LAHORE, Sept 11: Will the government allow Begum Kulsoom Nawaz to return to Pakistan after deporting her husband Mian Nawaz Sharif to Saudi Arabia?

Attorney General Malik Mohammad Qayyum said on Tuesday that the undertaking under which the Sharifs were banished to Jeddah in December 2000 applied to the entire family.

However, he said, no female member of the family had signed the undertaking and thus he was not in a position to say what the policy of the government would be.

Malik Qayyum said only male members of the family had signed the undertaking.

He recalled that the government had sent the wife of Mian Shahbaz Sharif back to Saudi Arabia when she came to Pakistan a few years ago.

Begum Kulsoom Nawaz, now in London, has been quoted as saying that she would be returning to Pakistan in a few days to take part in the struggle against ‘dictatorship’.

She is scheduled to go to Jeddah for a few days before taking a flight for Lahore.