Exiled former Pakistani PM to return home

Pakistan’s exiled former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said today he would return home on Monday despite a request from Saudi Arabia to abandon his planned trip.

“I will go back to Pakistan on September 10 with my brother because my country needs me,” he told a news conference in London, hours after a Saudi envoy urged him to respect a 2000 agreement under which he had agreed to leave Pakistan for 10 years.