LAHORE, Aug 13: Eager to return to the country, PML-N leader and exiled former prime minister Nawaz Sharif is currently hosting Justice Fakhruddin G. Ibrahim (retired) in Dubai to discuss legal aspects of his case being heard by the Supreme Court.

Mr Ibrahim is the Sharifs’ counsel in the petition seeking their return to the country. The court will now take up the case on Aug 16.

Sources in the party say that the counsel has been in Dubai since Saturday and will remain there for another couple of days to brief his client on all aspects of the case.

Party president Shabaz Sharif is also likely to reach the Gulf state on Wednesday morning to join the discussion.

Sources say the exiled prime minister is also getting in touch with all those personalities, especially his Arab friends, who had played a role in his release from incarceration after the Oct 12, 1999 military takeover, to take them into confidence about his decision to return home. They included a son of Lebanon’s slain prime minister Rafiq Harairi.