 While in exile in Saudi Arabia, Sharif was elected as the President of PML-N in August 2002 and moved to the United Kingdom in mid-2003 for medical treatment.In 1999, a complainant Saeeduddin lodged FIR and accused Sharif of allowing the Sabzazar police, as the Chief Minister of the Punjab, to kill his son along with other men in a fake encounter.In the encounter, his two sons and other three people were killed by the police.