<span style="color: #222222;">Maldives' former president Mohamed Nasheed returned home on Thursday after the exile of around three years. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Mr. Nasheed, who had been jailed for 13 years on a terrorism charge in 2015, was welcomed at the Male airport by president-elect Ibrahim Mohamed Solih and hundreds of supporters. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">He returned home two days after the country's Supreme Court withdrew a warrant for his arrest in the case. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Mr. Nasheed became the country's first democratically elected president in 2008 but had to resign in 2012, in what he described as a coup. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">In another development, Parliament Speaker Abdulla Maseeh Mohamed resigned from his post hours before impeachment motion against him was to be taken up this evening. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Mr. Maseeh, close to outgoing President Abdullah Yameen, was served with impeachment motions by opposition several times in the past but was never taken up by Parliament. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">However, with the reinstatement of 12 disqualified MPs by Supreme Court recently, the majority has shifted to the opposition. Mr. Yameen suffered a surprise defeat in Presidential elections held in September. </span><br />''