ISLAMABAD – Information Minister Chaudhry Fawad Hussain on Monday claimedthat the Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri in his meeting with PrimeMinister Imran Khan had expressed his regret over getting the Sharif familya reprieve from the then President General (retd.) Pervez Musharraf.
The two leaders had met on the sidelines of the World Government Summit inDubai on Sunday, February 10.
In his twitter post, Hussain claimed that PM Khan informed Mr Hariri howthe talks of a possible ‘NRO’ with Nawaz Sharif were making roundsthroughout the world.
On this, Hussain says, the Lebanese premier ‘raised both his hands’ andsaid it was a ‘huge mistake’ to get the former first family a reprieve.
“He never fulfiled any of his commitments; I faced severe embarrassment dueto this”, Hussain quoted Hariri as saying.
نواز شریف کو پرویز مشرف سے NRO دلوانے والے سعد الحریری کو وزیر اعظم بتا رہےتھے کہ پاکستان میں پھر نواز شریف کو NRO کی بازگشت ہے ،سعدالحریری نے دونوںہاتھ اٹھا کہ کہا شریف خاندان کو معافی دلوانا بہت بڑی غلطی تھی انھوں نے ایککمٹمنٹ بھی پوری نہیں کی اور مجھے سخت شرمندگی ہوئ
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— Ch Fawad Hussain (@fawadchaudhry) February 11, 2019link
Back in September 2007, Mr Hariri, while addressing a joint pressconference in Rawalpindi with the Chief of Saudi intelligence Prince Muqrinbin Abdul Aziz had urged former prime minister Nawaz Sharif not to returnto Pakistan and abide by his agreement with King Abdullah which bound himto stay out of Pakistan for ten years.
Both Mr Hariri and Prince Muqrin had expressed the hope that Mr Sharifwould honour the agreement which was negotiated with the then Pakistanigovernment by Mr Hariri and was guaranteed by the Saudi royal family.
Mr Hariri, during the press conference, had said that he had played a keyrole in getting the former prime minister out of jail in 2000 and have himexiled to Saudi Arabia as a guest of the royal family.
