{"id":59332,"date":"2023-10-21T17:32:27","date_gmt":"2023-10-21T08:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/21\/pakistans-ex-pm-nawaz-sharif-to-return-from-exile-for-political-comeback"},"modified":"2023-10-21T21:14:47","modified_gmt":"2023-10-21T12:14:47","slug":"pakistans-ex-pm-nawaz-sharif-to-return-from-exile-for-political-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=59332","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan\u2019s ex-PM Nawaz Sharif returns from exile \u2018completely ready\u2019 for election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Return of Sharif, who has conviction for graft, is likely to have been smoothed by deal with country\u2019s powerful military, expert says<\/p>\n<p>Nawaz Sharif, the three-time prime minister of Pakistan, arrived back in the country on Saturday after four years of self-imposed exile, poised to make a political comeback before the general election in January.<\/p>\n<p>Sharif spent the past few days in Dubai and left on a chartered flight packed with journalists, touching down in the capital, Islamabad, at about 1.30pm (0830 GMT), according to local media.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/21\/pakistans-ex-pm-nawaz-sharif-to-return-from-exile-for-political-comeback\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Return of Sharif, who has conviction for graft, is likely to have been smoothed by deal with country\u2019s powerful military, expert saysNawaz Sharif, the three-time prime minister of Pakistan, arrived back in the country on Saturday after four years of se&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4016,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[359,60,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-imran-khan","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4016"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59332"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59340,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59332\/revisions\/59340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}