Ishaq Dar meets Nawaz Sharif in London

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(FILE) In this photograph taken on June 23, 2008, Pakistani former prime minister Nawaz Sharif (R) talks with party leader Ishaq Dar after a court decision in Lahore. Pakistan vote winner Nawaz Sharif has picked a veteran finance minister to serve in his cabinet as Karachi stocks hit an all-time high on May 13, 2013, over hopes that his pro-business agenda can revive the economy. Sharif, who has sought to present himself as a pragmatist who can do business with the United States and improve relations with nuclear-rival India, won a resounding victory in landmark polls. PML-N spokesman Siddiqul Farooq told AFP the party had secured a "comfortable majority" at the national level and a "two-thirds majority" in Punjab province, where Sharif's younger brother Shahbaz would return as chief minister. Ishaq Dar, who served as finance minister in Sharif's second administration and again briefly in 2008, would return to the job, the spokesman said. AFP PHOTO/STR/FILES

 

LONDON: Former finance minister Ishaq Dar, who is in London owing to his medical treatment, met former prime minister Nawaz Sharif at his residence in London.

The meeting between the two continued for one hour.

Sources said that the country’s political situation came under discussion during the meeting. Ishaq Dar avoided the media and cameras after he reached the house of Nawaz Sharif.

The former minister is not appearing before the courts in assets reference filed against him by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB).