Qureshi says Nawaz offered him FM slot

Published July 19, 2014
PTI leader Shah Mehmood Qureshi. — File photo
PTI leader Shah Mehmood Qureshi. — File photo

RAJANPUR: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Vice Chairman Shah Mehmood Qureshi claims Nawaz Sharif had offered him foreign minister’s slot for joining the PML-N before the 2013 general election.

Addressing a workers convention here Friday, he said the PML-N chief had invited him to his Raiwind farm where he made the offer "but I had rejected it there and then,” a TV channel quoted him as saying.

Published in Dawn, July 19th , 2014

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