3-member bench to hear Maryam Nawaz's plea on Sept 14.

LAHORE -- A Lahore High Court (LHC) three-member bench will hear an application filed by Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Vice President Maryam Nawaz Sharif for return of her passport, on September 14.

LHC Chief Justice Muhammad Ameer Bhatti will head the bench, whereas Justice Ali Baqar Najafi and Justice Tariq Saleem Sheikh will be its members.

Earlier, a division bench referred the matter to the LHC chief justice with a request for fixing it another bench, after a member of the bench recused himself from hearing the matter.

Through a fresh civil miscellaneous filed in her pending writ petition, Maryam Nawaz submitted that she surrendered passport to the LHC registrar office after a...