PM Shehbaz denotifies Tariq Fatemi as special assistant on Foreign Affairs
ISLAMABAD: A day after the official notification, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday took back the portfolio of Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs from Syed Tariq Fatemi, sources informed Bol News.

Fatemi will nonetheless remain special assistant to prime minister however his new portfolio is yet to be decided. Sources privy to development within the government say that he will be assigned a new task soon.

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The development came ahead of Pakistan Peoples Party chief Bilawal Bhutto Zardari’s meeting with Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) supermo Nawaz Sharif in London. Senator Sherry Rehman and Khurshid Shah have also departed on a seprate flight.

It is pertinent to mention here that Fatemi, who was a former envoy, had earlier been the Special Assistant to the then Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif for Foreign Affairs from 2013 to 2017.

The second well-known identification was that Tariq Fatemi was one of the key figures who were named in the Dawn leaks scandal and he was deprived of his office due to his alleged involvement in this scandal.