Daily Times * Fawad says PML-N president threatened a no-show if PM turned up * NA Secretariat backs Info minister * PML-N up in arms, demand proof of allegations July 3, 2021 The saga of Prime Minister Imran Khans absence from a security briefing given by the Inter-Services Intelligence to parliamentary leaders took a new twist on Friday as Minister for Information Fawad Chaudhry claimed that the premier had not attended the briefing to accommodate Leader of Opposition in National Assembly and PML-N President Shehbaz Sharif. “The prime minister was scheduled to attend the national security huddle, but the opposition leader [Shahbaz Sharif] had conveyed to the speaker that if [Prime Minister Imran Khan] came to the briefing, he would not attend,” Fawad told a private TV channel. The prime minister was poised to attend the meeting but a message from Shehbaz had been sent to National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser that the opposition would stage a walkout if the premier attended the meeting, he went on to say. “Then the prime minister thought that there is no need of a walkout and you people can attend [the meeting] and I won’t come,” he added.