sides were present but “not the third party”.
The News is aware that this meeting took place at the office of a millionaire British Pakistani real estate tycoon whose one uncle is a PTI provincial assembly member while another close relative is a senior Muslim League leader.
A source who was present in the meeting told The News that Dr Qari and Imran Khan met at the office which is located near Green Park, near Buckingham Palace. “The meeting continued for over two hours and then the two sides left for lunch at a top Park Lane Hotel where a further round of talks was held. More people joined the two here and finalities of the alliance were agreed.”
The source said that a special team from Pakistan had also come in to make sure that both leaders meet each other and that an agreement is reached. Since then, Dr Qadri and Imran Khan remained in touch directly and through aides and ensured full cooperation to each other, said the source.
“Our meeting was held at a business office in Central London, it was not a five star hotel. Chaudhry brothers were not even aware that meeting took place, some common friends brought us together. There was no exchange of direct calls or any text messages for that meeting. It all happened through friends,” Dr Qadri said and effectively endorsed the allegations made by Javed Hashmi that senior PTI leadership was alarmed that Imran Khan had struck an alliance with Dr Qadri. Hashmi has said that Imran Khan told him and PTI that military will help him come into power and that he was allegedly asked by the establishment to form alliance with Dr Qadri and have Sheikh Rasheed on board too.
“There is no harm in meeting. During my London meeting with Imran Khan, we talked generally about the movement and how to move forward, Dr Qadri said evasively, without going into details.
He defended his decision of earlier denying meeting Imran Khan and then going quiet about it by saying that it was neither “farz nor wajib” to talk about meeting in London with the PTI leader.
Some people have tried to make a “fitna” out of London meeting and painted it as some kind of “London plan”. Dr Qadri also said that he and Imran Khan were allies and proud and will decide to continue sitting in Red Zone or going home through “consultations” as “our aims are the same, and we are in coordination with each other.”Awami Muslim League leader Sheikh Rasheed has said that from day one he has been coordinating between Imran Khan and Dr Qadri.