ISLAMABAD: Speaker National Assembly Ayaz Sadiq on Wednesday said the former prime minister Nawaz Sharif will return to the country soon.

"Nawaz Sharif will return to the country very soon, as soon as Begum's [Kulsoom Nawaz] health stabilises a bit," said Sadiq. 

When asked regarding the recent meeting between Maryam Nawaz, Chief Minister Punjab Shehbaz Sharif and his son Hamza Shehbaz, Sadiq said there were no differences between the Sharif family. 

"There are no differences in the family. I feel that in political families if the family members meet each other that itself becomes news."

The speaker also touched upon Imran Khan's ongoing case in the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), he said that the ECP is a forum which should be respected.

"I feel the ECP is a forum which should be respected," said Sadiq while talking to the media. 

The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf leader has non-bailable arrest warrants issued against him and has said he will appear 'voluntarily' before the commission on October 26.