Left waiting in a hall for 40 minutes, an irritated Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif stormed his way into a closed-door meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Turkmenistan. What was meant to be a routine meeting with Putin veered off-script fast, turning into an unscripted drop-in after Sharif’s scheduled appointment hit an unexpected delay.

A video from RT India captures a visibly frustrated Shehbaz Sharif striding out of a hall and heading straight for the room where Putin and Erdogan were deep in a closed-door discussion. Flanked by security, Sharif pushed his way in — only for guards to halt him moments after he crossed the threshold, as the clip dramatically shows.

The Moment PM Sharif Gate-crashed Putin's Meeting With Erdogan Aft

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