'Met Nawaz in personal capacity': Aun Chaudhry on airport interaction with PML-N supremo.

LAHORE -- In a bid to clear the air, Istehkam-e-Pakistan Party's (IPP) Additional Secretary Aun Chaudhry on Sunday said that he met Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo Nawaz Sharif "in a personal capacity".

A day earlier, media obtained a video that showed the IPP office bearer meeting the former prime minister and former finance minister Ishaq Dar at the Allama Iqbal International Airport shortly before Nawaz's departure to Minar-e-Pakistan.

"There are human relations other than politics [...] I was part of Shehbaz Shairif's cabinet for one and a half years," Chaudhry said while speaking to media today.

"I have explained my position to the party leadership," he added.

His remarks come as earlier Jahangir Khan Tareen-led IPP - while distancing itself from the meeting at the Lahore airport - had decided to issue a show-cause notice over the meeting.

Chaudhry, a former aide of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan, had thrown his weight behind Tareen and resigned as special adviser to the Punjab chief minister in August...