Disgruntled senior leader of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Hamza Shehbaz is scheduled to return to the country next week. However, it has not yet been decided whether Hamza and his cousin, Maryam Nawaz, will run the party’s election campaign together for the upcoming general elections in Punjab.
According to media reports, the former chief minister had flown to US in protest against some decisions of the party leadership, and since then was away from politics. Hamza will be returning to Pakistan after staying in the US for about two and a half months. It learnt that Hamza Shehbaz may be assigned some important responsibilities upon his return to the country.
It was worth mentioned here that Hamza Shehbaz took oath as the Punjab chief minister on April 30, 2022 and served till July 26, 2022, including a trustee role from July 22. Hamza, a son of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, had been a member of the Punjab Assembly from August 2018 till January 2023 and previously, a member of the National Assembly from June 2008 to May 2018.
