LAHORE : A high-level Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) huddle chairedby party president Shehbaz Sharif on Sunday decided that former premierNawaz Sharif and his daughter, Maryam Nawaz, should land in Lahore uponreturn to Pakistan.

“Shehbaz chaired a high-level party huddle in Model Town to finalise afuture course of action in light of the party supremo’s return to thecountry, expected next week,” sources said.

“The meeting discussed whether Nawaz and Maryam should land in Islamabad orLahore and concluded that the father-daughter duo should arrive at theprovincial capital,” sources said.

Nawaz and daughter Maryam were sentenced on Friday to 11 and eight years inprison and slapped £8-million and £2-million fines, respectively, inrelation to the Avenfield properties reference filed by the NationalAccountability Bureau (NAB) last year.

Following the verdict, the father-daughter duo vowed to return to Pakistanon July 13 and challenge the verdict against them in the high court.

The meeting chaired by Shehbaz was attended by top party leaders, includingformer National Assembly speaker Ayaz Sadiq, former railways minister SaadRafique, former interior and development minister Ahsan Iqbal and Shehbaz’sson Hamza Shehbaz, sources said.

According to sources, the PML-N president decided to direct the party’sticket holders to lead groups of supporters to welcome the party supremowhen he returns to the country.

In case party supporters are restrained by the caretaker government fromproceeding to the airport to welcome their leader, sources said analternative plan of action will also be finalised.