Has King Salman of Saudi Arabia offered Nawaz Sharif to stay in Kingdom?
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*LAHORE: *
Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Interfaith Harmony and Middle East Affairs Hafiz Tahir Mehmood Ashrafi said on Sunday that Saudi Arabia did not offer former premier Nawaz Sharif to stay in the kingdom.
“Reliable sources have confirmed that Saudi King Shah Salman has not invited Nawaz Sharif to visit his country,” the PM’s aide said while addressing a press conference in Lahore.
His statement comes amid speculations that Riyadh had offered Nawaz, who is in London since October 2019, to move to the kingdom if he faces any difficulty in the United Kingdom.
Ashrafi also clarified that Saudi Arab link never intervened in internal issues of Pakistan and added that Pakistan link ties with all Arab Muslim countries would be improved with the cooperation in different areas.
The PTI government has announced that it will not renew Nawaz’s passport link, which is set to expire on February 16, in an apparent attempt to compel the convicted PML-N supreme leader to return home.
Nawaz, serving a seven-year prison term after his conviction in December 2018, was given a rare permission in October 2019 to get medical treatment abroad in view of a debilitating health condition.
