Shahbaz offers apology to Gilani

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The PML-N president assured the prime minister that his party members will avoid such remarks in future.—File photo

LAHORE: President of PML-N and Chief Minister Punjab Shahbaz Sharif has apologised to Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani over remarks made by his party leaders against the Bhutto family.

Official sources told DawnNews that Shahbaz called Gilani on Thursday and offered his apology over remarks he termed as ‘offensive’.

The PML-N leaders Khawaja Saad Rafeeq, Senator Pervez Rasheed and others in a political gathering had said defamatory remarks about Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, Shah Nawaz Bhutto and President Zardari.

The PML-N president assured the prime minister that his party members will avoid such remarks in future.

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