Shehbaz to hold important press conference tomorrow

LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President Shehbaz Sharif will hold an important press conference tomorrow (Thursday) to discuss the developing situation with regard to the removal of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif's name from the ECL. 

Shehbaz has also called an important meeting of the PML-N's senior leaders on Thursday. 

The development comes a few hours after the government announced that it was issuing a one-time permission to former prime minister Nawaz Sharif to travel abroad for medical treatment for four weeks. 

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"Nawaz has been given this one-time permission only for medical treatment," Akbar said. "It is the federal government's responsibility to ensure a guarantee from him and that that bond was only over surety, not any political gain."

The special assistant said the government understood Nawaz was unwell but stressed that the former premier was required to return to Pakistan after his medical treatment was completed. "The Ministry of Interior will issue the letter of permission," he said.