Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) aircraft has been assigned to bring Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and family back to Pakistan.
PIA spokesman Danyal Gilani said on Friday “Due to the prime minister’s health issues, PM Office had partly been shifted to London where a camp office had been set up,” said a statement issued by the airline.
“Now that the PM has recovered after his surgery and is allowed to travel, the whole camp office has to be shifted back to Pakistan. On PIA’s regular flights, so many seats were not available, due to which the only option was to depute a dedicated aircraft,” the statement said.
On Wednesday July 06, local media reports claim the prime minister is scheduled to return to Pakistan on July 9 after doctors gave him the go-ahead. The statement did not, however, mention a date for the PM’s return to Pakistan.
PM Nawaz underwent open-heart surgery at a London hospital on May 31.
