I’ll return to Pak before Ramazan: Sharif

Musharraf had said on Saturday that the Sharif brothers would not be allowed to come back to Pakistan despite an apex court verdict permitting them to return home. The President had also said that if they returned, they would either be arrested or sent back to Saudia Arabia.

However, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz chief admitted that he was in contact with Saad Hariri, the son of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, who met the two brothers in late July when the Sharif family was on a visit to Scotland.

“It doesn’t matter if I admit we are in contact with Saad,” he said, declining to comment on reports that Hariri had met him after Musharraf reminded the Lebanese leader of his role as a ‘guarantor’ in the ‘exile’ deal after the Sharif brothers filed petitions seeking permission to return home.

Hariri had reportedly played a major role in getting the Sharif family out of the Attock Fort on December 10, 2000, where he was kept after his ouster in a military coup led by Musharraf in 1999.