Shehbaz sides with Nisar in rift with Pervaiz Rashid

LAHORE:- Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif threw his weight behind senior Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, after the ex-interior minister’s tussle with fellow party leader Pervaiz Rashid continued to deepen, it emerged on Friday. Chief Minister Shehbaz, while speaking to a senior journalist, broke his silence on the issue making headlines for quite some time. Shehbaz expressed that the PML-N president and his brother Nawaz Sharif should intervene and try to resolve the matter between the two party leaders. The Punjab chief minister said that Chaudhry Nisar is a senior leader and has been an aide to Nawaz since the 1980s and Pervaiz Rashid should not have passed certain statements.–Agencies

 

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