Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif. Photo: File

LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif is expected to leave for Saudi Arabia today, sources informed Geo News.

The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leader is expected to hold important meetings with the Saudi government officials. The visit of Shehbaz is taking place after his meeting with the Saudi ambassador to Pakistan three days back in Lahore. 

Seprately, Shehbaz, while speaking in Aaj Shahzeb Khanzada Kay Saath said that former prime minister Nawaz Sharif's Panama Papers case and Imran Khan's disqualification case are similar but the judgement differed in both the cases.

He added that space for a review petition does exist in the verdict passed by the Supreme Court in Imran Khan's case.

"The Supreme Court gave its judgment, look at the Panama case and this [Imran Khan's] case, both cases have a lot of similarities," said Shehbaz.

The chief minister also said that it is their legal right to expose the loopholes and file a review petition.

Shehbaz's remarks come after the Supreme Court disqualified Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Secretary General Jahangir Tareen but ruled in favour of PTI Chairperson Imran Khan in its judgment on the disqualification case against the two party leaders.

Further criticising Imran, Shehbaz said the PTI leader is surrounded by those who are "corrupt from head to toe".

He also said that Jahangir Tareen benefited from the offshore company and PTI's president in Lahore, Aleem Khan, is ?a master in taking over lands illegally?.

"He [Imran] has benefitted from thieves," said the younger Sharif brother.