*ISLAMABAD: Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, the PML N stalwart has come out inopen defiance against his party. *
*He did not attend a lunch followed by a meeting organised by PM ShahidKhaqan Abbasi on Friday.*
The PM had arranged the lunch in honour of PML-N lawmakers at Parliament,which was to be followed by a meeting. Despite being present at Parliament,Nisar, a former interior minister, did not attend the lunch.
Nisar left the Parliament after meeting the speaker of the assembly.Reports of differences between him and former PM Nawaz Sharif are rife.
On Thursday, a journalist asked Nawaz if Nisar was thinking of quitting theparty, to which the former PM did not respond.