PAKISTAN'S MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT BROUGHT MY FATHER BACK FROM UK: NAWAZ SHARIF'S DAUGHTER

The daughter of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has acknowledged that Pakistan's powerful military establishment brought her father back from UK where he was in self-imposed exile for four years, confirming what his opponents have been alleging ahead of the general election on February eight.

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Sharif's daughter Maryam Nawaz, who is also the chief organiser for his party Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), was addressing a rally at Nankana Sahib, about 80 kms from here, on Wednesday when she made this claim.

She shared the stage with Sharif, 74, who, however, did not make any such claim.

The PML-N supremo is the only Pakistani politician who became the prime minister of the coup-prone country for a record three times. He ended his four-year self-imposed exile in the UK and returned to Pakistan in October last year after securing what his opponents and political analysts described as "blessings of the powerful military establishment."