Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif faced heavy trolling on social media after a video claiming he had “gatecrashed” a closed-door meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan went viral on Friday. The video was later deleted, claiming that it may have been a “misrepresentation of the events”.
Sharif had waited for around 40 minutes for a meeting with President Putin at the International Forum for Peace and Trust in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, according to a post earlier shared by RT India. “PM Sharif waited for over 40 minutes for President Putin before growing tired and gate-crashing the Russian leader’s meeting with Erdogan. The post may have been a misrepresentation of the events. Meanwhile, Sharif shared a post on X highlighting his interaction with Turkish President Erdogan at the event. “Met my dear brother, President @RTErdogan, on the sidelines of the International Forum on Peace and Trust in Ashgabat. It is always a pleasure to exchange views with a time-tested and trusted friend of Pakistan,” Sharif wrote on X.
He left ten minutes later,” RT India had earlier posted on X. RT India later deleted the post and issued a clarification, stating that, “We deleted an earlier post about Pakistani Prime Minister Sharif waiting to meet Vladimir Putin at the Peace and Trust Forum in Turkmenistan.