Real leaders never hold 'secret meetings': Imran

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman, Imran Khan on Thursday said fearlessness is a hallmark of real leaders and such leaders never hold 'secret meetings'. "Today Pakistan is in dire need of (such) leadership," Imran Khan said in his speech at South Asia Middle East Conclave here.
Imran Khan's remarks come a day after reports carried by a section of Indian media that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had held a 'secret meeting' with his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi on the sidelines of South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) summit in Kathmandu in 2014. A book authored by an Indian journalist claimed that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Narendra Modi held an hour-long secret meeting on the sidelines of the SAARC summit in Kathmandu last year. However, the reports were later denied outright by the Pakistani government's spokesman. Imran Khan said names of some politicians came up in the investigations that they were involved in terrorists' financing. But, he regretted, that when exposed, these politicians joined hands with each other and the investigation came to a halt.