Islamabad, Sept 22: The brother of deposed Prime Minister Nawaz Sahirf, who has been exiled along with him, planned to return to Pakistan next month despite restrictions by the government on his arrival. Shahbaz Sharif, the former Chief Minister of Punjab province and head of Pakistan Muslim League-N is currently convalescing from surgery in New York. He said that he would return to Dubai in a couple of days from where he will go to Pakistan. He is expected to land at the Lahore Airport on October 12 on the fourth anniversary of General Pervez seizing power in a bloodless coup.
Pakistan's newsagency quoted Shabaz as saying at New Jersey in US that he has "decided" to go back home and it was his right to live there. Shabaz along with Nawaz Sharif and their large combined family has been exiled to Jeddah in Saudi Arabia by President Musharraf in 2001.


Shabaz who has been appointed by Nawaz to lead the PML-N said the recent reunification of breakaway PML factions was aimed at strengthening Musharraf and to cover the corruption by the heads of these parties.


Bureau Report