Bin Laden used to finance Nawaz Sharif: Ex-envoy

ISLAMABAD: Al Qaeda leader Osama bin

Laden had supported and funded ex-prime minister Nawaz Sharif, a former Pakistani diplomat who also served as a minister in the PML-N supremo’s cabinet has claimed. “Yes, he (Osama) supported Mian Nawaz Sharif at one time. He used to extend financial assistance (to Sharif),” former envoy to the US Abida Hussain alleged in an interview to Geo TV channel.