Shehbaz Sharif returns to Pakistan after four months

ISLAMABAD: President of the opposition party Pakistan Muslim League (N), Shehbaz Sharif, returned to Pakistan on Sunday, after four months being in the United Kingdom, to offer assistance with efforts against the coronavirus outbreak in the country, his party announced on Saturday.
Sharif, currently the leader of the opposition in the national assembly, has served three terms as Chief Minister of Pakistan’s most populous province, Punjab. His leadership is widely considered pivotal in controlling the spread of dengue fever in the province in recent years. 
His party’s spokesperson, Maryam Aurangzeb, said Sharif had decided to return in order to “play his role in saving the nation from coronavirus.”
The announcement came as Pakistan announced it would be suspending all incoming international flights to the country for the next two weeks. Only flights of national carrier PIA would be allowed to bring previously booked passengers home. Sharif is scheduled to land on Sunday morning.
“As a Pakistani, a leader of the opposition, and a political person, it is my duty to return,” Sharif said in a video message that was posted on Twitter before his departure.
Sharif had left with his brother and party supremo, Nawaz Sharif, for London in November last year, after Pakistani courts allowed the jailed former Prime Minister to travel abroad on medical bail.
He said he was scheduled to stay in London until his brother’s heart surgery, but had decided to return to Pakistan to help during the coronavirus outbreak.