It emerged on Sunday, former interior minister Sheikh Rasheed, in an audio message, could be heard asking a person whether he made a “payment” to persuade PML-N leader Jalil Sharaqpuri to resign from his seat. “Did you make the payment to Sharaqpuri?” the AML chief said in the audio, where he could be heard speaking to a person named Gul Zaman. After the audio made rounds on social media, he accepted that the audio was, indeed, original and it was his voice, but he said that he was merely “joking” and was “not serious”.
