Interior Minister (IM) Sheikh Rasheed Ahmad has on Tuesday, offered Nawaz Sharif travel documents if he decides to come back to the country.

“Nawaz Sharif’s passport has expired and he could not return to the country,” he said that the government could provide him with a special certificate.

“Nawaz Sharif could not travel to any other country after the expiry of his passport,” the IM said.

Pertaining to the PDM’s meeting held on Tuesday,  Sheikh Rasheed said that Maryam Nawaz and Maulana Fazlur Rehman had to decide on the future course for the PDM.

On February 16, Interior Minister Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed announced that absconding former prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s passport will expire tonight.

While in a media briefing, the minister declared that the former premier’s passport will not be renewed and that the government could issue an emergency travel document on his request for returning back to the country.

He said the names of Nawaz Sharif and Maryam Nawaz had already been enlisted in Exit Control List (ECL) since August 20, 2018 on a no-fly term by National Accountability Bureau’s (NAB) condition, he added.