ISLAMABAD: Former prime minister and Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz Vice President Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has said his predecessor and party’s supreme leader Nawaz Sharif met Kabul’s National Security Adviser Hamdullah Mohib on the request of Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani.
Sharif, who travelled to London in November 2019 on an eight-week conditional bail period on the pretext of medical treatment and later refused to return, landed himself in hot waters after he met with a delegation from Afghanistan, including Mohib, to “discuss matters of mutual interest”.
The meeting, reportedly aided by an Arab country, was held to “talk to everyone, listen to their point of view and convey one’s own message across”, Sharif’s daughter Maryam Nawaz later tweeted.
He said the meeting was scheduled some five months back after Ghani had expressed a desire for a meeting between an Afghanistan delegation and Sharif in London, but did not elaborate that in what capacity since Sharif does not hold any office and was declared an absconder by the courts for violating the bail requirements.
