Fawad Chaudhry advises PML-N to submit surety bonds for Nawaz Sharif's clearance

Minister for Science and Technology Chaudhry Fawad Hussain on Wednesday said that the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) should not do politics on former prime minister Nawaz Sharif's health and arrange for the surety bond.

In a tweet, Chaudhry said the government has taken a major step and claimed that the there was a struggle going on in the Sharif family on the party leadership.

The minister defended the government’s decision to seek a surety bond by saying that former president Asif Ali Zardari and other convicts would want to use Nawaz’s example and sending him without a process is not possible.

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On Tuesday the federal cabinet agreed to remove the former prime minister's name from the Exit Control List (ECL) on the condition that he confirm his return date and submit a surety bond to the government before getting a one-time permission to leave the country.