PPP welcomes Nawaz Sharif's return to Pakistan: Bilawal Bhutto.

JACOBABAD -- Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari said Saturday his party welcomed Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo Nawaz Sharif's plan to return.

"It has been PPP's long-standing demand that Nawaz should return. PPP is very happy that he is coming back. It is incumbent upon everyone to work for Pakistan's development," Bilawal, a former foreign minister, told a press conference in Jacoabad.

The PML-N supremo plans to return to Pakistan - after a 4-year hiatus - on October 21, according to his party, with preparations underway to welcome the senior politician.

Nawaz, a former three-time prime minister, has been residing in London since 2019 after he travelled to the British capital for medical treatment in the middle of his seven-year jail term, which was approved by the Lahore High Court.

Just ahead of his expected arrival, a fresh medical report of the former premier was submitted to the LHC Friday.

In the fresh medical report filed today by Nawaz's legal team, Professor Carlo di Mario of London's Royal Brompton Hospital stated that he has been treating "this patient with previous CABG, multiple angioplasties and ablations, throughout his stay in London in the past years."

"...due to diffuse distal coronary disease in a patient with diabetes and multiple other comorbidities that would require frequent follow-up investigations both in London and Pakistan."

His return also comes ahead of the general...