{"id":78974,"date":"2025-06-29T19:13:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T14:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=78974"},"modified":"2025-06-29T19:13:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T14:13:13","slug":"pm-shehbaz-meets-chaudhary-nisars-residence-urges-return-to-pml-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/pm-shehbaz-meets-chaudhary-nisars-residence-urges-return-to-pml-n\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Shehbaz meets Chaudhary Nisar\u2019s residence, urges return to PML-N"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"brxe-f35779\" class=\"brxe-post-content wpf_news-content\">\n<p>ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister of Pakistan <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/pm-shehbaz-sharif-summon-report-on-increasing-salaries-of-chairman-senate-speaker-na\/\">Shehbaz Sharif<\/a> visited the house of disgruntled PML-N leader Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>According to a private news channel, during the visit, the prime minister invited Chaudhry Nisar to rejoin the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/pmln-secures-victory-in-unofficial-result-of-pp-52\/\">PMLN<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The last meeting between the two was on September 7, 2024, when Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif condoled the death of Nisar&#8217;s sister, accompanied by Information Minister Attaullah Tarar. In this recent meeting, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif inquired about Chaudhry Nisar&#8217;s well-being and discussed the possibility of his return to the party.<\/p>\n<p>Chaudhry Nisar expressed gratitude for the prime minister&#8217;s visit but said that he would consider rejoining the PML-N only after he recovers and consults with his colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>Chaudhry Nisar has been a key figure in the PML-N for over 34 years but left the party in 2018, stating that his decision was based on his &#8220;conscience&#8221; and commitment to &#8220;politics of honor, not power.&#8221; He contested the 2018 election as an independent candidate from Rawalpindi, criticizing the party&#8217;s ticket distribution.<\/p>\n<p>Despite PTI&#8217;s efforts to recruit him, Nisar has maintained his independent stance, citing his personal ties with PTI founder Imran Khan. Notably, after being elected as an MPA from a Rawalpindi constituency in 2018, Nisar took oath as a provincial legislator in May 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Although he was elected as an independent candidate from PP-10 Punjab Assembly constituency in the 2018 general elections, he initially refused to take the oath in protest against alleged rigging which he claimed led to his defeat in NA-59, Rawalpindi-III National Assembly constituency. Ultimately, he decided to take the oath after about three years to avoid disqualification.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister of Pakistan Shehbaz Sharif visited the house of disgruntled PML-N leader Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan on Sunday. According to a private news channel, during the visit, the prime minister invited Chaudhry Nisar to rejoin the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PMLN). The last meeting between the two was on September 7, 2024, when Prime [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":78975,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,147],"tags":[29796,367],"class_list":["post-78974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","category-politics","tag-chaudhry-nisar-ali-khan","tag-shehbaz-sharif"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78976,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78974\/revisions\/78976"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}