24-10-2025

Month: September 2023

Saudis, Houthis hold talks to end Yemen war

The five days of talks were “positive”, Saudi officials and a senior Houthi said, after the rebel delegation ended the first public visit to the Saudi capital since hostilities broke out between the two sides.

Underlining the change in atmosphere, the delegation included Hosain Homood Ala’zi, who in 2017 appeared on a Saudi list of wanted Houthis with a $5 million reward for information leading to his arrest.

Riyadh mobilised an international military coalition against the Houthis in March 2015, months after the northern fighters with links to Tehran had seized the capital and threatened to overrun the country bordering southern Saudi Arabia.

Hundreds of thousands have died in the fighting or from its impacts, including famine, and millions have been displaced in what the United Nations calls one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises.

As the Houthis left, the top diplomats of the United States, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates — a key coalition member, and influential in Yemen’s government-held south — met on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, in his meeting with Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan and the UAE’s Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed, welcomed the Riyadh talks “aimed at achieving a roadmap to end the conflict through a Yemeni-led political process under UN auspices”.

“The secretary and the foreign ministers agreed that cooperation among the three governments and Yemen’s Presidential Leadership Council is essential to advancing UN-led peace efforts,” State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said.

Ray of light

Separately, Sheikh Abdullah met the chairman of the Yemen government’s Presidential Leadership Council, Rashad al-Alimi, discussing “international efforts made to reach a political solution to the Yemeni crisis”, the UAE’s official WAM news agency said.

The Saudi-Houthi talks were the latest ray of light for Yemen, which has endured decades of instability and where three-quarters of the population is dependent on aid.

Optimism has increased since Saudi Arabia and Iran ended a seven-year rupture in ties in March, with nearly 900 prisoners released in an exchange deal soon afterwards and a Saudi delegation holding talks in Sanaa in April.

Meanwhile, a UN-brokered ceasefire is largely holding, despite officially expiring last October.

Houthi spokesman Mohammed Abdel Salam, who led the delegation, indicated both sides were looking for solutions to problems that were raised in the Yemeni capital in April.

“We discussed some options and alternatives to overcome the issues of disagreement that the previous round touched upon,” he said on X, formerly Twitter.

Saudi Defence Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman, younger brother of de facto ruler Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, said he “reaffirmed our commitment… to reach a comprehensive political solution under UN supervision” in talks with the Houthis.

“We look forward to the success of these critical discussions,” Prince Khalid wrote on X.

The process appears to have snagged on Houthi demands which include payment of their civil servants’ salaries by the displaced Yemeni government, and the launch of new destinations from Sanaa airport.

Ali al-Qhoom, a member of the Houthis’ political council, said “There will be a new round of negotiations”, but he also made no mention of any concrete achievements out of Riyadh.

There were clashes between police and demonstrators in the Armenian capital of Yerevan on Wednesday, as thousands protested the government’s handling of the Nagorno-Karabakh crisis.

Azerbaijan said it had restored its sovereignty over the territory, after a deadly 24-hour military offensive.

It has led to Armenia being accused of failing to protect ethnic Armenians in the contested territory.

Protesters are calling for Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan to quit.

They say he made too many concessions in the fight for Nagorno-Karabakh, and did little to help the ethnic Armenians who live there.

The territory is recognised internationally as part of Azerbaijan but large areas of it have been controlled by ethnic Armenians for three decades.

Pictures from Yerevan showed police in riot gear standing guard near a government building as some protesters threw rocks.

While some people peacefully waved flags and posters, others were shown injured and covered in blood.

“Our authorities have renounced Artsakh,” opposition politician Avetik Chalabyan told the crowd, using the Armenian name for Karabakh.

“The enemy is at our doorstep. We must change authorities to change national policy,” he added, while another lawmaker called for an impeachment procedure to be launched against the prime minister.

Another protester, Sargis Hayats, said Mr Pashinyan “must go” and told AFP news agency: “We are losing our homeland, our people.” Some 120,000 ethnic Armenians live in Nagorno-Karabakh.

On Tuesday, Azerbaijan’s military launched an “anti-terror” operation demanding that Karabakh’s forces surrender and disband their “illegal regime”.

Unable to get any support from Armenia because a key road has been blocked by Azerbaijan since December, the ethnic Armenians soon gave in.

On Wednesday, Azerbaijan’s president Ilham Aliyev insisted he had nothing against the ethnic Armenian population, only what he called their “criminal junta”.

In a televised address, he said Azerbaijan wished to integrate Karabakh’s population and turn the region into “paradise”.

But there are serious concerns at what could happen to the ethnic Armenians still in Nagorno-Karabakh.

Images posted on social media show thousands of Armenians gathered at the Russian-controlled airport in Khankendi – known as Stepanakert by ethnic Armenians – the capital of Karabakh trying to leave the territory.

A separatist official said on Wednesday that more than 10,000 people have been evacuated from Armenian communities to other settlements in the region “where relative safety can be provided”. Another official stated that at least 200 people were killed in the fighting, including civilians – although the BBC has not been able to verify these numbers.

Azerbaijan’s presidency said officials would meet Karabakh’s Armenian representatives for talks on “issues of re-integration” in the Azerbaijani town of Yevlakh on Thursday.

There was an abundance of ceremony and security as the King and Queen’s state visit to France got under way in Paris on Wednesday afternoon.

The Arc de Triomphe, with a flypast trailing the colours of the French flag, was the first backdrop for this diplomatic theatre, with President Emmanuel Macron pulling out all the stops for his royal visitors.

And there was Mick Jagger shouting “bon soir” as he rolled into the Palace of Versailles for a state banquet, representing rock royalty.

Queen Camilla took her place on the Versailles red carpet in a blue Dior cape, while the King and President Macron did that pretending to talk thing, while they lined up for the cameras.

Former Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger seemed surprised to be one of the final guests, looking rather lost on the red carpet like a goalkeeper stranded in the wrong penalty box.

 

But there’s a serious purpose below this minutely-choreographed pageantry and celebrity. A state visit is a strange mix of PR and politics.

This was about visibly reinforcing a key alliance between Britain and France and over the next few days there will be a checklist of areas of common interest – trade, the environment, culture and defence.

The British royals were guests of honour at a dinner hosted by President Macron in the Palace of Versailles’ Hall of Mirrors

This was all toasted at a banquet – blue lobster to start – where even the cheeses had to be balanced with one British, Stilchelton, and one French, Comte.

The King’s speech for the banquet toast was delivered in French and English, which is always a diplomatic crowd pleaser. And he remembered hearing how his mother had danced in Paris in 1948 as a young newly-wed in her twenties.

The then Princess Elizabeth had been serenaded by Edith Piaf. She would have been pregnant with Charles by then and he said: “I suspect it may have left an indelible impression on me, even six months before I was born. La Vie en Rose is one of my favourite songs to this day.”

The background to all of this politesse, as the French newspapers made clear, was about nurturing a relationship that might have been strained by Brexit.

But a survey of what the French and British public feel about each other, published to coincide with the state visit, suggested that we actually quite like each other.

There were 72% of people in Britain and 76% in France who thought that although the countries might sometimes “squabble”, in the end the countries were “natural friends and close allies”, in this survey of over 2,000 people by Portland Communications.

Rock royalty Mick Jagger was in attendance at the black tie dinner

There were big differences though in attitudes towards the monarchy. Only about a quarter of French people would prefer a constitutional monarchy like Britain and about a quarter of people in Britain would support a republic like France.

The French public thought that policing was better in the UK than their own, but only 10% preferred British cooking.

In another insight, the survey found by a big margin that people in Britain believed that King Charles would have voted to remain in the EU in the Brexit referendum.

But if the question from the current state visit had been how did the French public respond to the King and Queen – it would be impossible to say.

Because such state visits are also dominated by a huge road-blocking security operation. In Paris it wasn’t liberte, egalite, fraternite but securite, securite, securite.

There was little chance so far for the French crowds to see the King and Queen. At the Arc de Triomphe there were soldiers, police and a big media contingent, but the ordinary Parisians were kept far away behind security barriers.

It is the King’s second state visit as monarch

It was the same in Versailles, with a secure distance between the diners at the banquet and the ordinary people that the Sun King Louis XIV would have appreciated.

This was the first of a three-day visit, with the King set to give a speech to the Senate and travel to eco-projects in Bordeaux.

So expect more photo opportunities as the heads of state of the two countries show each other a taste of the entente cordiale.

Multi-nation special forces exercise ‘Eternal Brotherhood-II’ begins in Barotha

A two-week long multi-national special forces exercise “Eternal Brotherhood-II” kicked off in Punjab’s Barotha, a statement issued by Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said on Tuesday.

According to the military’s media wing, special forces contingents from Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Qatar, Turkey and Uzbekistan are participating in the exercise.

Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Syed Asim Munir attended the opening ceremony and interacted with exercising participants. During the visit, the army chief was briefed on the scope and conduct of the exercise by the general officer commanding special service group, the ISPR added.

It further said that the exercise is aimed at further harnessing the historic military-to-military relations among the friendly countries, including nurturing of joint employment concept, while identifying areas of mutual interest for future military collaborations and benefitting from each other’s experience against terrorism.

‘Junior leaders are backbone of Pakistan Army’

Prior to visiting Brotha, the army chief visited the Junior Leadership Academy (JLA) — the centre of excellence for the training of non-commissioned officers — in Shinkiari and laid a floral wreath at Yadgaar-e-Shuhada.

Addressing the participants of the academy Gen Munir remarked, “Junior leaders are the backbone of the Pakistan Army and are key to success in conventional and unconventional warfare.”

“Our standard of professionalism and leadership is par excellence compared to any modern army of the world. Junior leaders of the Pakistan Army have proven their mettle in the fields of training, operations and world-class competitions across the world”, the COAS concluded.

On arrival at JLA and Brotha, Gen Munir was received by the inspector general training and evaluation, the statement also read.

PM meets Iranian President on place on sidelines of UNGA session

Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaarul Haq Kakar on Tuesday held a bilateral meeting with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi

He reaffirmed Pakistan’s strong commitment to further strengthen and deepen ties with Iran, with a particular focus on enhancing cooperation in the economic domain.

The meeting took place on the sidelines of the 78th Session of the UN General Assembly.

He underscored the close fraternal relations between the two neighbouring countries.

He stressed that steps including the recent inauguration of the Mand-Border border marketplace, would not only contribute to the economic uplift of the border areas but also serve as a tangible manifestation of the collective commitment to work for the betterment of the two peoples.

He noted that President Raisi’s policy of ‘Neighborhood First’ was fully aligned with Pakistan’s vision for regional development and connectivity.

The prime minister laid stress on the importance for both countries to leverage their unique geographical location to promote shared objectives of regional peace and prosperity, through greater trade and enhanced regional connectivity.

Pakistan-Iran relations are characterized by regular high-level exchanges, commonality of views on important regional and global issues and strengthened cooperation in all areas of mutual interest.

Karabakh separatists say 25 killed in Azerbaijan military operation

Separatists in Nagorno-Karabakh said Tuesday more than two dozen people had been killed, including two civilians, since Azerbaijan initiated an “anti-terror” operation in the breakaway region controlled by Armenian proxy forces.

“There are 25 victims … among whom two are civilians,” the separatist region’s rights ombudsman Gegham Stepanyan said on social media, citing data provided by a morgue.

Washington, Riyadh exploring mutual defence pact: New York Times

Under the agreement, both sides would pledge to provide military support if the other country is attacked, either in the region or on Saudi territory.

Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is also asking the Biden administration to help his country develop a civilian nuclear programme, which some US officials fear could be cover for a nuclear weapons program to counter Iran, according to an NYT report.

Any treaty with Saudi Arabia that is similar to the American pacts with other allies is sure to draw strong objections in Congress, since some lawmakers, including top Democrats, see the Saudi government as unreliable partners who care little about US interests or human rights.

Move part of Biden’s gambit to secure ‘normalisation’ of ties between Israel, S. Arabia

An agreement would also raise questions about whether President Biden is getting the United States more militarily entwined with the Middle East, and would contradict his administration’s stated goal of reorienting American military resources and fighting capabilities away from the area and towards China.

Discussions between the US, Saudi Arabia and Israel have mainly revolved around MBS’ demands, and that diplomacy is expected to come up on Wednesday, when Biden meets with Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

During his speech at the UNGA on Tuesday, the US president mentioned the benefits of nations normalising ties with Israel.

The US military has bases and troops in both Japan and South Korea, but American officials say there are currently no serious discussions about having a large contingent stationed in Saudi Arabia under any new defence agreement.

 

The separate defence treaties that the United States has with Japan and South Korea were forged after devastating wars in the mid-20th century and as the Cold War was intensifying, compelling the United States to stitch together alliances around the world to counter a global Soviet presence.

The Pentagon has just under 2,700 American troops in the kingdom, according to a letter the White House sent to Congress in June.

The US president’s push for a Saudi-Israel deal is a gambit that, not long ago, would have been hard to imagine. He pledged during his 2020 presidential campaign to make Saudi Arabia a “pariah”.

But American officials have said a diplomatic agreement would be an important symbol in the defusing of Arab-Israeli tensions and could also have geopolitical significance for Washington. Bringing Saudi Arabia closer to the United States, they argue, could pull the kingdom farther from China’s orbit and blunt Beijing’s efforts to expand its influence in the Middle East.

In a public appearance last week, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said normalisation of relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel would be a “transformative event in the Middle East and well beyond.” But he said that getting the parties to an agreement “remains a difficult proposition” and that a deal was far from certain.

 

The State Department declined to comment on details of the discussions for this article, NYT said.

In recent months, White House officials have given briefings about the negotiations to influential Democratic lawmakers, whom the administration needs to persuade to approve the treaty.

A majority of Senate Democrats have voted on multiple occasions to restrict Washington’s arms sales and other security cooperation with Riyadh, objecting to the Saudi bombing campaign in Yemen and the killing of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018, a murder that American spy agencies have judged was ordered by MBS, even though the crown prince has denied direct involvement.

The Saudi-led war in Yemen, which began in 2015, resulted in mass killings of civilians and what the United Nations called “the worst man-made humanitarian crisis in the world”.

Democratic lawmakers are also pressing the Biden administration on reports that Saudi border forces recently killed hundreds or thousands of African migrants who were trying to cross from Yemen. Human Rights Watch released a report in August on the atrocities. Saudi Arabia maintains the reports are “unfounded”.

Michael Green, a former director at the National Security Council under President George W. Bush, told NYT the treaties with Japan and South Korea were “pretty ironclad” in terms of a US military commitment in the event of hostilities.

The arrangement with Japan is more straightforward — being a defeated and demilitarized nation from World War II when the treaty was signed, American officials at the time did not envision another country attacking Japan or vice versa, Mr Green said.

Because of the constant tensions in the Middle East — and the fact that Saudi Arabia is involved in a war in Yemen — getting a Japan-style treaty approved would probably involve clearing “a much higher political bar,” he added.

Rishi Sunak is considering weakening some of the government’s key green commitments in a major policy shift.

It could include delaying a ban on the sales of new petrol and diesel cars and phasing out gas boilers, multiple sources have told us

The PM is preparing to set out the changes in a speech in the coming days.

Responding to the reported plans, he said the government was committed to reaching net zero carbon emissions by 2050 but in a “more proportionate way”.

The aim of net zero is for the UK to take out of the atmosphere as many greenhouse gas emissions – such as carbon dioxide – as it puts in.

The prime minister said: “For too many years politicians in governments of all stripes have not been honest about costs and trade-offs. Instead they have taken the easy way out, saying we can have it all.

“This realism doesn’t mean losing our ambition or abandoning our commitments. Far from it.

“I am proud that Britain is leading the world on climate change.”

He said the UK was committed to international climate agreements it had already made.

“No leak will stop me beginning the process of telling the country how and why we need to change,” he said.

Mr Sunak added that he would give a speech later this week “to set out an important long-term decision we need to make so our country becomes the place I know we all want it to be for our children”.

 

If he presses ahead with the plan it would represent a significant shift in the Conservative Party’s approach to net zero policy, as well as establishing a clear dividing line with the Labour Party.

According to multiple sources briefed on Downing Street’s thinking, Mr Sunak would use the speech to hail the UK as a world leader on net zero.

But he would also argue that Britain has over-delivered on confronting climate change and that other countries need to do more to pull their weight.

Some specifics of the speech are still thought to be under discussion, but as it stands it could include as many as seven core policy changes or commitments, documents seen by the BBC suggest.

First, the government would push the ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars – currently set to come into force in 2030 – back to 2035. The 2030 date has been government policy since 2020.

Second, the government would significantly weaken the plan to phase out the installation of gas boilers by 2035, saying that they only want 80% to be phased out by that year.

Third, homeowners and landlords would be told that there will be no new energy efficiency regulations on homes. Ministers had been considering imposing fines on landlords who fail to upgrade their properties to a certain level of energy efficiency.

Fourth, the 2026 ban on off-grid oil boilers will be delayed to 2035, with only an 80% phase out target at that date.

In addition, Britons will be told that there will be no new taxes to discourage flying, no government policies to change people’s diets and no measures to encourage carpooling.

Mr Sunak is also likely to rule out what he sees as burdensome recycling schemes.

The government had reportedly been considering a recycling strategy in which households would have had “seven bins” – with six separate recycling bins plus one for general waste.

Labour’s shadow business secretary Jonathan Reynolds said it was “an absolute farce”, with “late night policy statements from the Downing Street bunker, as ever driven by the absolute chaos within the Conservative Party, with a weak Conservative Prime Minister Rishi Sunak”.

He declined to say whether Labour would restore any targets that are ultimately scrapped.

“We are making clear that we are absolutely rejecting this completely futile, short-term and facile way of doing politics,” he said. “This is not a serious way to make long-term decisions that require vast amounts of investments, where lots of jobs are at risk.”

Conservative MP Chris Skidmore, the former chairman of the UK government’s net zero review, said diluting green policies would “cost the UK jobs, inward investment, and future economic growth that could have been ours by committing to the industries of the future”.

“Rishi Sunak still has time to think again and not make the greatest mistake of his premiership, condemning the UK to missing out on what can be the opportunity of the decade to deliver growth, jobs and future prosperity,” he said.

Conservative peer Lord Zac Goldsmith, who resigned as a minister earlier this year with a scathing attack on Mr Sunak’s “apathy” over climate change, said the prime minister was “dismantling” the UK’s credibility on environmental issues.

“His short stint as PM will be remembered as the moment the UK turned its back on the world and on future generations. A moment of shame,” he said.

Green Party MP, Caroline Lucas called any rollback on net zero “economically illiterate, historically inaccurate and environmentally bone-headed”.

But Tory MP Craig Mackinlay, who chairs the net zero scrutiny group, said he was “pleased to see some pragmatism” from Mr Sunak.

Moving back dates for net zero targets “will take pie in the sky ‘greenwash’ measures out of clearly unachievable deadlines”.

Former Conservative minister David Jones said modifying green policies was “inevitable and sensible”, adding that pressing on with the 2030 ban on new petrol and diesel cars would “seriously damage the British motor industry”.

On Thursday, the King will be on a State Visit to France, where he will host what is known as a Climate Mobilisation Forum.

The event convenes specialists in climate finance, and aims to help developing economies make adjustments to cut emissions.

The King will be accompanied by Foreign Secretary James Cleverly.

Transferring suo motu powers to three-member committee not attack on CJP rights: Justice Isa

ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice of Pakistan Qazi Faez Isa on Monday observed that parliament’s SC (Practice and Procedure) Act 2023 was not an attempt to clip the top judge’s rights by devolving the suo motu powers to a three-member committee.

The new CJP passed the remarks during a full court hearing on the petitions challenging the SC (Practice and Procedure) Act 2023.

The historic hearing, which was held almost throughout the day, has been adjourned till October 3.

The hearing was seen as historic because, for the first time in the country’s judicial history, the Supreme Court allowed live telecast of proceedings on the petitions challenging the contentious law seeking to regulate suo motu powers of the country’s top judge.

 

During the hearing, CJP Isa said arguments in the case will begin afresh because the new bench has been formed.

There were three applications to make a full court, which had been approved, CJP Isa observed.

Ahead of the hearing today, the Attorney General for Pakistan (AGP) Mansoor Usman Awan submitted the federal government’s response in the matter, requesting the court to reject the petitions against the Supreme Court Practice and Procedure Act.

“Petitions against acts of parliament are inadmissible. [Therefore,] the petitions against the Practice and Procedure Act should be dismissed,” the response submitted by the government contended.

Sources confirmed to Geo News that the decision was made in the full court meeting ahead of the proceedings.

To this end, five cameras were installed in the courtroom number one. Four cameras were installed in the visitors’ gallery and one was installed for the lawyers’ rostrum in front of the judges’ docks.

The full court was constituted by newly-appointed Chief Justice of Pakistan Qazi Faez Isa and includes Justice Sardar Tariq Masood, Justice Ijazul Ahsan, Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah, Justice Munib Akhtar, Justice Yahya Afridi, Justice Aminuddin Khan, Justice Sayyed Mazahar Ali Akbar Naqvi, Justice Jamal Khan Mandokhel, Justice Muhammad Ali Mazhar, Justice Ayesha A. Malik, Justice Athar Minallah, Justice Syed Hasan Azhar Rizvi, Justice Shahid Waheed and Justice Musarrat Hilali.

Prior to this, a full court meeting was held to consider live broadcasting of today’s proceedings and ponder over guidelines for effective hearing of cases. According to the sources, instructions for the live broadcast were issued yesterday (Sunday) — hours after Justice Isa took oath as the CJP.

Upon his arrival, CJP Isa — who reached the apex court in his personal car without protocol — said to the SC staff: “People come to the Supreme Court to solve their problems. Treat visitors like guests.”

He further said that the doors to justice should be kept open.

PML-N’s sacrifice prevented Pakistan’s default, Nawaz Sharif says

LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo Nawaz Sharif Monday asserted that the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) coalition government had prevented the country from defaulting, averting a situation where petrol could potentially have been priced at Rs1,000 per litre today.

His comments came during a consultative meeting of his party via video link from London during which he also emphasised that the PML-N has made a sincere sacrifice to rescue Pakistan from economic collapse and has borne the consequences for the nation’s sake, expressing confidence that his party would achieve success in the upcoming elections.

Furthermore, the PML-N supremo accused former army chief General (retd) Qamar Javed Bajwa, ex-Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) chief General (retd) Faiz Hamid, and former chief justice Mian Saqib Nisar of being responsible for the current state of affairs in the country.

Nawaz acknowledged that while some damages could be overcome in life, others remained insurmountable.

“Today, the poor is craving for bread. Who brought the country to this state,” the senior politician questioned, regretting how people were worried about putting two-time meals on their table.

He also recalled that in 2017, when he was in power, it was not the case. Then cheap flour, ghee and sugar were available, while the poor today were receiving heavy electricity bills and did not know how to pay them.

Meanwhile, PML-N Senior Vice President and Chief Organiser Maryam Nawaz said people would accord a historic welcome to Nawaz Sharif on October 21, and bury the ‘dramatists’ of Panama and Iqama forever.

The party’s Vice President Hamza Shehbaz, General Secretary Ahsan Iqbal, Punjab President Rana Sanaullah Khan, former members of the National and provincial assemblies from Punjab and ticket-holders, party officials of all divisions and districts also attended the meeting.

Maryam briefed the meeting about preparations regarding the return of the party supremo on Oct 21, 2023. A central facilitation control centre has also been set up at the party’s main secretariat to coordinate arrangements for Nawaz Sharif’s welcome, she announced.

The party’s chief organiser also shared details of the preparations and organisational cooperation at the constituency, ward, division, district and tehsil levels.

“Nawaz Sharif made Pakistan a nuclear country; but today it has been turned into a beggar country, which is a matter of shame for all concerned,” said Hamza, adding that people would secure the future of their children by making the PML-N supremo the prime minister of Pakistan again.

“Nawaz Sharif becoming the prime minister means reducing the scourge of inflation,” he added. The party leader also said people would welcome the former premier for the development and prosperity of the country.

Hamza maintained that the nation should ask the question of why inflation happened after Nawaz Sharif’s tenure. The PML-N supremo gave relief to people, then who brought miseries to them, he asked.

Meanwhile, former prime minister Shehbaz Sharif left London for Pakistan on Monday after spending a month there. He held multiple meetings with Nawaz Sharif during his stay in London.

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