Pakistan

Zardari not meeting Nawaz in London: Bilawal

PPP chairperson clarifies 'AZ is not meeting NS'

News Desk April 15, 2016

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Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairperson Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Friday took to Twitter to silence rumours about a possible meeting between former president Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in London.

"AZ is not meeting NS," Bilawal tweeted using initials to refer to the two politicians.

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AZ is NOT meeting NS. https://t.co/FnopvkKDtd
— BilawalBhuttoZardari (@BBhuttoZardari) April 15, 2016

Both the premier and PPP co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari are in London currently. A day before PM Nawaz departed for London for a routine medical check-up, Senator Aitzaz Ahsan claimed that Premier Nawaz was actually going to London to seek Asif Zardari's support amid opposition's demand for his resignation following Panama Papers leak.

“Nawaz Sharif is going to London to pay a visit in the court of Asif Zardari,” Ahsan told journalists outside the Parliament House. However, he warned that if his party bailed the prime minister out, it would suffer politically. “I will convey my views to PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto and Co-Chairman Asif Zardari,” Senator Ahsan added.

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A spokesperson for Nawaz Sharif was quick to rebut the claim. “The prime minister did not express a desire to meet the PPP leadership during his upcoming London visit,” Mussadek Malik said in a statement. No such meeting is scheduled, he added.

Further dispelling rumours, Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar on Wednesday announced there is no secret meeting planned for PM Nawaz in London and he has gone to the UK for a medical treatment.

“For the last three weeks, his health has deteriorated for which the prime minister had to travel,” he said, while speaking at a press conference in Islamabad.

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“In this country some people cannot even get ill as rumour-mongers keep on politicising the issue.”

The prime minister departed for London on Wednesday for a “routine medical checkup, which was repeatedly postponed due to his official engagements over the past few months”.

COMMENTS (14)

Arshad Abdulla | 8 years ago | Reply Yes the story is rigtht that Zardari is not meeting Nawaz Sharif but Nawaz Sharif is meeting Zardari. PPP's Qamaruzzaman Kaira has already suggested that even if enemy get sick one should visit him. Here both Nawaz and Zardari are out of the country apparently on "treatment".

Ch. Allah Daad | 8 years ago | Reply @Asad: Only after allegations are proven in the court of law.

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Clockboy Ahmed | 8 years ago | Reply Wait a minute. I thought Nawaz went to UK for colonoscopy.

Mohammed | 8 years ago | Reply Two old crooks looking for a way out.

Parvez | 8 years ago | Reply Zardari is a master at this game.....and this time he's holding all the cards. He will delay meeting Nawaz right upto the end...after he gets his pound of flesh.

SHAH | 8 years ago | Reply Absolutely true, 'Zardari not meeting Nawaz in London', it is actually the other way, 'Nawaz meeting Zardari in London ;

Raghu | 8 years ago | Reply @Asad: Why should the PM resign. His name is not on any of the offshore companies. Take his kids to court if you think they have done something wrong. Hassan and Hussain live in the UK, a country Imran Khan speaks highly off. Why not file a case against them in the UK. PTI has no proof and itself believes no wrong has been done. But they are trying to ride this wave of lies to find a back door to becoming PM. Masses don't care about IK or the lies of PTI.

Asad | 8 years ago | Reply @Ch. Allah Daad: Should your PM resign?

ABCD | 8 years ago | Reply “AZ is not meeting NS,” Bilawal tweeted But it will read later NS went to meet AZ

Jasper | 8 years ago | Reply Baby corruption telling us Daddy Corruption and Uncle Corruption not having any plans to meet. Yeah right!

Ch. Allah Daad | 8 years ago | Reply They had a meeting when little baby was playing in the garden.

Sam | 8 years ago | Reply Nawaz in London - favorite hideout of corrupt scoundrels and their ill-gotten wealth. No wonder real estate in London is so expensive.

excalibur | 8 years ago | Reply NS is included in the A to Zee ( AZ) of Corruption So who cares what they do

Rex Minor | 8 years ago | Reply The guy is a genuine fool to have cocealed his whealings and dealings under the cover of his childrens names instead of his wife, perhaps to avoid inheritance tax for them? Rex Minor

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