LAHORE, Nov 29: The wife and two daughters of former chief minister Shahbaz Sharif returned to Saudi Arabia on Thursday evening after the Punjab government told them that they would be arrested in case they stayed back.

Mrs Nusrat Shahbaz and her daughters had reached Lahore on Tuesday morning, triggering a spate of speculations about the future designs of the exiled Sharifs.

The Press Secretary to the President, Maj-Gen Rashid Qureshi, had described the sudden return of the family of the former chief minister as violative of the agreement under which the Sharifs were banished to the Saudi kingdom for a period of 10 years. He had said that the government would soon take an action.

During her stay, Mrs Nusrat Shahbaz met her father and other family members.

It is said that the Punjab government conveyed to Mrs Shahbaz Sharif that she should go back to Saudi Arabia or face arrest.

She was not happy the way she was being forced to leave her country.