*LAHORE – The leaders and workers of the PML-N will gather at Lahore’sLohari Gate at 3pm and leave for the airport to welcome Nawaz Sharif andhis daughter Maryam Nawaz.*

Shehbaz Sharif, the PML-N president, has instructed party supporters toreach the airport directly, if they are not allowed to organize a rally.

Maryam and her father Nawaz Sharif are returning to Pakistan on July 13after they were sentenced to seven and 10 years in prison respectively byan accountability court in the Avenfield properties case.

Captain (retd) Safdar, Maryam’s husband who was sentenced to one-year inprison, has already been arrested by NAB from Rawalpindi and was shifted toAdiala Jail.

Talal Chaudhry, a Sharif loyalist, said the people have seen his party’spower show in Rawalpindi on July 8.

Mr Chaudhry said the PML-N will challenge the verdict against the Shariffamily both legally and politically.

The party leadership has tasked the local leaders to gather the supportersand instructed them to mobilize workers in Lahore, Faisalabad, Sheikhupuraand Kasur.