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Pakistan Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi expressed full support for Mr SharifIslamabad: Pakistan Prime
Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi said today that former premier Nawaz Sharif clarified to him that his statement about the Mumbai terror attack
was "misreported".Mr Abbasi said this while talking to senior journalists after an emergency meeting of the National Security Committee
(NSC) - Pakistan's top civil-military body - that condemned Mr Sharif's "fallacious" statement and termed it as "incorrect and
misleading".Mr Sharif, for the first time, questioned Pakistan's policy to allow the "non-state actors" to cross the border and "kill"
people in Mumbai as he publicly acknowledged in an interview that terror groups are active in the country.Mr Abbasi said he also held a
meeting with Mr Sharif after the NSC meeting and asserted that Mr Sharif did not say what was reported in the media about the Mumbai
attack. "A few sentences (from the newspaper interview) were blown out of proportion and context
I have clarified those (statements)," Mr Abbasi asserted. Stating that the NSC dismissed those words which were misreported, Mr Abbasi said
the meeting did not condemn Mr Sharif but incorrect reporting of his interview. "Indian media is giving the issue a different hue, and we
should not be a part of it," he said.Mr Abbasi said there was no tension between the civil and military
He said misunderstandings are removed in the light of the facts. He expressed full support for Mr Sharif and said the entire party,
including party president Shehbaz Sharif, stands with him
"Nawaz Sharif is still our Quaid (supreme leader) ," he said.He said that no one forced him to talk to the media and it was his own decision
to give the explanatory statement.Mr Abbasi said that he will not resign and complete the term.For the latest Election Results Live Updates
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