*ISLAMABAD – Prime Minister Imran Khan refused King’s request to releaseformer PM Nawaz Sharif from jail,** Federal Railways Minister Sheikh Rashidhas claimed.*
*He on Saturday that a king had approached Prime Minister Imran Khan forNawaz Sharif’s release from jail.*
“A *badshah salamat* insisted that [former prime minister] Nawaz Sharif beallowed to leave [jail],” Rashid, a close friend of PM Khan, said in Lahoreon Saturday. “Imran said no way at all,” he said.
“I am telling you Imran Khan’s exact sentence,” the federal railwaysminister said. Rashid, however, didn’t name the king.
Nobody has ever thought that Nawaz Sharif and Asif Zardari would be injail, he said, adding that Imran Khan will hold all corrupt individualsaccountable.
The federal minister said that PM Khan wants to take the country forward.
Commenting on the prime minister’s forthcoming US visit, Rashid said thatImran Khan and Donald Trump had a similar nature.