LAHORE, April 18: PML-N leaders are reaching London one by one as their meeting to discuss return of party president Mian Shahbaz Sharif to Pakistan will begin on Tuesday. Mr Sharif will chair the meeting which will continue for some days to ponder over all pros and cons of the decision.

He is likely to disclose the date for his return to Pakistan at a press conference at the end of the meeting. Zafar Iqbal Jhagra, Mian Asad and Iftikhar Chandio left for London on Sunday, while Sardar Yaqoob Nasir and Ahsan Iqbal would leave on Monday (today).

Khwaja Saad Rafiq and Shahbaz Sharif's spokesman Farrukh Shah, Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, Ishaq Dar and Khwaja Asif had also reached London while Sirdar Zulfikar Khosa and Pir Binyamin Rizvi left for the UK on Saturday.

The Sharif family had been exiled to Saudi Arabia in December 2000 under, what government functionaries claim, a written agreement that none of its members would return for 10 years.

The Supreme Court, hearing a petition of Mr Sharif, had on April 7 allowed him to return home to end his exile declaring that the government could not bar any Pakistani from entering the country.