Click to play videoNew Delhi: The Supreme Court in Pakistan issued notice to federal and the Punjab Provincial Government on Nawaz Sharif's petition to be allowed to return home.
Pakistan Supreme Court has said that Sharif can return to the country.
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf had ousted the Sharif government in a coup in 1999.
The Supreme Court's decision is seen as a setback to the General.
Earlier Sharif and his brother Shabaz, former chief minister of Punjab, had filed a petition to end their forced exile.
Interestingly, the matter was heard by none other than Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry. The government is expected to reply to the notice. A final ruling is awaited.
Meanwhile, Pakistan appears to be on the verge of an imminent Emergency even as mixed signals emanate from the country’s corridors of power.
While Information Minister Tariq Azeem maintains the time is ripe and the state of Emergency can be declared “anytime”, Attorney General Malik Qayyum has played down the reports saying he has says he has no word on it.
Azeem said some sentiment coming from the United States, including from Democratic presidential hopeful Barak Obama, over the possibility of US military action against al-Qaida in Pakistan ''has started alarm bells ringing and has upset the Pakistani public.''
While the news of Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf mulling the action broke late on Wednesday night, Intelligence Sources told CNN-IBN on Thursday morning that Emergency is expected to be proclaimed through a joint session of national assembly sometime later in the day.
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