Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif was not issued a visa by the US Embassy in London to travel to New York to attend a wedding and meet party members. Sharif was planning to attend the wedding of the daughter of a close family friend, Capt Shaheen Butt, this weekend. He applied for a visitorsÂ’ visa at the US Embassy in London four weeks ago. Although the American embassy knew that his principal purpose in travelling to New York was to attend the wedding, it did not oblige. While the embassy did not say that it was refusing a visa, for all practical purposes, that was what it did.