Staff Reporter
Islamabad
Information Minister Shibli Faraz on Tuesday said there were no restrictions on former premier Nawaz Sharif, his sons and former finance minister Ishaq Dar, to return to Pakistan to attend the funeral of the PML-N supremo’s mother.
Nawaz and Shehbaz Sharif’s mother, Begum Shamim Akhtar, passed away in London on November 22. She was in her 90s and had been unwell for a month or so, sources in the party had said, adding that she had also twice visited a hospital in London for a check-up.
Arrangements are being made to bring her dead body back to Lahore within a couple of days to be buried next to the grave of her husband, Mian Sharif, at the family’s Jati Umra estate.
“They are welcome to come to Pakistan and attend the funeral,” Faraz said in a tweet on Tuesday, warning the opposition of trying to politicise the matter.
