Truth behind Shehbaz Sharif’s video shared by Hareem Shah

ISLAMABAD: Muhammad Abubakar Umer, a focal person to former prime minister Shehbaz Sharif on digital media, has responded to the alleged video shared by TikToker Hareem Shah on Twitter calling it “baseless and filthy stuff created by people on social media.”

Talking to Hum Digital, he clarified that the girl in the video is Shehbaz Sharif’s niece and mentioned that the same video with a misleading caption had circulated on social media about four to five years ago as a propaganda tool against the then chief minister of Punjab Shehbaz Sharif.

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Hareem Shah on Monday shared a video featuring the former prime minister in London. The video rapidly went viral on social media, sparking a wide range of reactions from the public.

وڈیو 1 : 4 شادیاں کرنے والے شہباز شریف کی لندن کے نجی ہوٹل میں اپنی نئی "گرل فرینڈ" سے دو گھنٹے طویل ملاقات؟ پہلے ہوٹل لابی میں بیٹھ کر آدھ گھنٹہ چائے پی پھر کمرے کی طرف چل پڑے۔ کوئی شرم حیا؟@CMShehbaz pic.twitter.com/0Wv5kcuf7o

— Hareem Shah (@_Hareem_Shah) August 21, 2023

Hareem Shah finds herself thrust into the national limelight due to her controversial videos and her non-viable approach towards national issues.

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Earlier this month, she said that if she is appointed as the caretaker foreign minister of the country for six months, she could transform Pakistan’s economic landscape.

“If I am made the foreign minister of Pakistan for only six months, I will take Pakistan’s foreign exchange reserves from 8 billion to 100 billion dollars,” Shah tweeted.

In 2021, she made headlines after marrying Bilal Shah. Hareem Shah’s husband stood by her when her private videos were leaked in March this year.