Posts Tagged ‘Nawaz Sharif’
Failure to learn from disastrous lessons of dictatorship
گملے میں لگایا ہوا پودا کتنا بڑھ سکتا ہے؟ اگرپودےکو بڑھانا مقصود ہو،تو اسے گملے سے نکال کر زمین کے کشادہ سینے میں منتقل کرناہوتا ہے، ورنہ گملے میں لگاہوا پودا ایک حد تک بڑھنے کے بعد نشوونما کی [...]
A history of traitor certificates issued by Pakistan’s Teen Jeem
غیر جمہوری ریاستوں میں جو لوگ آ فاقی انسا نی حقوق، جمہوری آزادیوں، عوام کو اختیارات اور انصاف منتقل کرنےکی تحریکیں چلاتے ہیں اور نۓ جدیر نظام کی بشارت دیتے ہیں، ان کے نام ریاست غداری کا [...]
A critical view on Supreme Court’s six options to government
Make so much noise that everything becomes inaudible-then people would hear what we want them to hear. This is how the Pakistani Establishment is controlling the game at the moment - It is very clear who is who, and what is what. But because of a concentrated effort to remove the current Government and head of state, all the other noises and all [...]
Asaan tay jaana billo day ghar
The top Pakistani nationalist, ex-winning cricket Captain and recent-wining conspirator Imran Khan read General Pasha’s message in his speech in Lahore in which he disclosed latest conspiracy namely memogate, co-produced by Mansoor Ijaz along with General Pasha. From that day, Imran has been getting wickets through his tsunamic bowling and clean [...]
What in the Lord’s name
update: There has been alterations and additions made to accommodate few other articles on the same issue The Supreme Court has stated that under the Article 184-3, they have jurisdiction to hear the petition on alleged memo, because fundamental rights are directly involved. The three fundamental rights that are directly at issue [...]
Justice for all, please -by Ali Aftab Saeed
For the attention of our revered judges, with utmost respect It seems the infamous memo had indeed threatened to tear down the very security of this country; I wonder why our enemies never figured out this way of neutralising our security apparatus. I am sure our honourable justices know their law very well, and would doubtless have [...]
The Memo is just a handy means to regime change in Pakistan – by Ayaz Amir
Real issue: regime change There should be no room for confusion. Nor should we put blinders on our eyes. The Memo (with a capital M) has not endangered our nukes or lowered army morale. This last is really absurd. If army morale is to be lowered by a forgotten piece of paper, no matter what was inscribed on it, we are in more danger than we [...]
A Citizen’s Petition
I was going through the text of infamous petition of Mr. Nawaz Sharif , that "My Lord" has taken an immediate notice. I realized if this was written by Nawaz Sharif himself and were "آئنی" and not "فرمایشی", then it would have been like this. I am sure "My Lord" will not have the courage to even read such petition. A Citizen of [...]
‘Crimes’ of Asif Zardari – by Shiraz Paracha
The military eliminated all Bhuttos because Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, Benazir Bhutto, Murtaza and Shah Nawaz Bhutto did not accept dictation but Asif Zardari, a non-Bhutto, is no different than Bhuttos and this is the reason of generals’ annoyance with Zardari. Generals are desperate to remove President Zardari through the Supreme Court as they [...]
We expected better from you, Nawaz Sharif! – by Kashif Naseer
نواز شریف سے ایسی توقع نہ تھی خاکی وردی والے کب تک مشرف کے بوجھ تلے دبے رہتے لیکن اگر زرداری صاحب آرٹیکل چھ کو بروکار لاتے اورمشرف کو محفوظ راستہ دے کر بھگانے کے بجائے الٹا لٹکا دیتے، اگر سیاسی [...]
Will three Punjabis (Nawaz, Iftikhar, Kayani) let democracy survive in Pakistan? – by Omar Abdullah
Yet again, a Chief Justice of Pakistan (Iftikhar Chaudhry) along with a Punjabi politician (Nawaz Sharif) is playing a dangerous game against democracy and Pakistan. Yet again, our holy guardians in GHQ (Generals Kayani et al) are pulling the real strings Nawaz Sharif's move to take memo issue to the Supreme Court is an anti-democratic [...]
President’s illness and the memo-phobes – by Moazzam Raza Tabassam
میموگیٹ کیس میں بغیر کسی نظرثانی درخواست سپریم کورٹکا وفاق کو سننے کا فیصلہ صدر آصف علی زرداری کی بیماری کوسیاسی بحران بنا کر پیش کرنے والوں کو ایکبار پھر بے نقاب کرگیا۔میمو گیٹ پر شور و غوغا [...]
Nawaz Sharif and the Memo Case – by Taj Haider
1. Mian Nawaz Sharif and other petitioners in the Memo case have said that they have not accused anyone, but have merely requested the court for an inquiry. 2. That they have not accused anyone is understandable on two counts. a. There is no acceptable evidence against anyone. The only fact is that an American businessman has written a [...]
Whom are you fooling Nawaz Sharif? – by Shah Hussain Lahori
The cat is out of the bag. Mian Mohammad Nawaz Sharif and his associates attacked the Supreme Court in 1997 and this time they attacked judicial conventions for the second time. The great Quaid of Punjab's largest party, Sharif, entered the Supreme Court by-passing security protocols and was treated as a VVIP. These judges have short memories. [...]
Supreme Court accepts Nawaz Sharif’s petition on memo under Article 184(3)
According to news reports, the Supreme court of Pakistan has accepted former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's petition on the "memogate". Mr. Sharif had pleaded that the court should itself constitute a committee on the recent Husain Haqqani-Mansoor Ijaz memo issue and investigate it under the Article 184(3) of the Constitution, as according to him [...]
Who will Nawaz Sharif choose: A steadfast friend or a solo flying opportunist?
Shah Mahmood Qureshi who recently resigned as an MNA and a member of the CEC of the Pakistan Peoples Party after having been overlooked for the position of Foreign Minister of Pakistan is keeping two political parties of tenterhooks and giving impetus to the right wing media to speculate what will be the impact of his movement on the fate of [...]
Sincere Advice to Nawaz Sharif
Is it really fair to say that the PPP is now pro-establishment (when in fact it has decided to tow the line simply to survive and protect all the good legislation enacted by its government) or equally is it fair to say that Nawaz Sharif is anti-establishment when his brother's Punjab government has sympathies with Jamat ul Dawah? Nawaz Sharif [...]
An open letter to Nawaz Sharif — by Gul Bukhari
Because you have firsthand experience of how democracy and the people’s will is thwarted and corroded, you must be cognizant of the role you must play at this crucial time, as you have done in the service of the country over the past three-and-a-half years As leader of the second largest and main opposition party you must be aware of the heavy [...]
Imran Khan is playing in the hands of the military establishment – by Ali Aftab (Beygairat Brigade)
Lead singer of Beygairat Brigade, Ali Aftab, asks some tough questions about Imran Khan and the sinister role of Pakistani establishment behind his PTI. And here I am thinking, can PTI clean sweep the next elections? Do they even have candidates in Sindh, Balochistan or Southern Punjab for that matter? Is it going to remain the party of [...]
Nawaz Sharif should wait for his turn until 2023 – by Dr. Saif
Dengue brothers' plan to step up 'go Zardari drive' is apotheosis of anti-democratic move. This clearly shows they have not learnt a lesson from their past mistakes. Nawaz Sharif's call for agitation recalls his 1990s politics (ISI+IJI sponsored), but gone are the days when the military and its puppets used to conspire for removing PPP from [...]
… Meanwhile in the Land of the Pure – by Nadeem F. Paracha
* Photo illustrations by Nadeem F. Paracha Source: Dawn
Sharifia Aalu Anday
It’s not Zardari’s corruption they are after, Sharifs want to save their skin In a case of instant justice to the high and mighty, the Lahore High Court has restrained an accountability court from proceeding with references filed against the Sharif Brothers and their businesses. According to Dawn on 19th October 2011, the bench comprising [...]
Enjoying ‘Aaloo-Andey’ with the people – By Nadeem Farooq Paracha
Editor's Note: We are pleased to cross post this excellent article for DAWN Blogs by Nadeem Paracha. Kudos to the Beygairat Brigade for their bold, audicious, subversive and darkly comic song on the prevailing Zeitgiest of the Urban elites. Just when one thought Pakistani pop music had eaten itself and choked on its own self-indulgences, [...]
The biggest threat to democracy is now to come from democrats themselves
The PML-N which has in the last few years dwindled between being written off due to confrontation with the military to supporting democratic process through Charter of Democracy to supporting terrorists of Lal Masjid, Taliban etc to demanding “revolutions” to calling to the military to intervene, has decided to show its true colors by [...]
APC: civil façade of foreign policy — by Farhat Taj
Related post: APC: Pakistan army-orchestrated response to USA – by Ayaz Amir Since the recent attack on the US embassy in Kabul by the Haqqani network Taliban, Pakistan came under immense US pressure, including veiled threats of attack, for its links with the Haqqani Taliban with bases in Pakistan. Pakistan’s military, which runs the [...]
Well said Nawaz Sharif, well done SAFMA —Dr Mohammad Taqi
Related : SAFMA sends defamation notice to TV channel The security establishment frets that a strong politician from Punjab, who always had the wherewithal to cut them down to size, has been consistently expressing his will to do so too “Your Excellency doesn’t understand. A man is a Punjabi or Bengali before he is a Hindu or a [...]
All credit to Nawaz Sharif
Source: The Hindu, Editorial The recent remarks by Nawaz Sharif, the leader of Pakistan's main opposition party, show that there are politicians in that country prepared to stand up against the populist view of India as dushman humsaya or the “enemy neighbour.” It would have been the easier political course for Mr. Sharif, who heads the [...]
Pakistan and the Search for Identity (Part 2) – by Rusty Walker
PART TWO Neither blindness nor ignorance corrupts people and governments. They soon realize where the path they have taken is leading them. But, there is an impulse within them, favored by their natures and reinforced by their habits which they do not resist; it continues to propel them forward as long as they have a remnant of strength. He [...]
A tale of N-League somersaults -by Raja Riaz
Sharif brother's recent move is aimed at toppling the democratic setup. The grand alliance in the offing, led by Sharifs of Punjab, is based on one-point agenda – getting rid of Asif Ali Zardari-led PPP administration, another change in its stance. LAHORE: Sitting with the blue-eyed guys of living dictator General (r) Pervez Musharraf [...]
Politics of self-discredit -by Khaled Ahmed
President Zardari called Nawaz maulana, with multiple innuendos: that he was the illicit political offspring of General Zia, that he was a covert abettor of jihadi elements in Punjab, and that he was aligning with Jamaat Islami in the AJK polls The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has finally decided that familiar is safe and to hell with [...]
Kaddu sharif se Mazrat ke sath – by Danial Lakhnavi
پچھلے دنوں سوشل نیٹ ورکس پر کدو شریف کے فضائل اور اس سے تیار کئے جانے والےحلوے اور دیگر ڈشز کی تراکیب کے حوالے سے ایک وڈیوزیربحث رہی، کدو کے ساتھ شریف کے اضافے کا شان نزول کچھ یوں ہےکہ [...]
WikiLeaks: The Truth and Learning from our Mistakes
By Hamza Usman Locally published for the first time, courtesy an MoU between Julian Assange and the Dawn Media Group, the WikiLeaks documents reveal classified details about Pakistan and its relations with the United States. This new front in the war for common sense and sensibility is still in its incipient stages, but the potential to awaken [...]
Hypocrisy of PML-N: Punjab condemns foreign funds but accepts billions anyway
The government of Punjab, which had recently secured front page coverage by its proclamation about shunning all funding by foreign donors, demanded from Islamabad to increase its borrowing limits and ensure release of development funds to avoid delays in the execution of projects in the next budget, it is learnt. Contrary to its public position [...]
A piece of advice to our top military brass- by Dr.Saif ur Rehman
Related Posts: PAF airbase attack: The costs of promoting Devil’s Advocates like Imran Khan Pakistan: Osama’s episode -by Inam R Sehri Questions for General Pasha (Part I) ISI mobilizes fake civil society to defend Pakistani generals Aye watan ke sajeeley jarnailo!!! To the honourable generals of Pakistan army – by Rashid [...]
Dara Shikoh: The Sufi Prince
Editor's Note: At a time in its history when the Pakistani State is hostage to the Anti-India Jihadi enterprise of its security establishment, we the people of Pakistan can look to such universal heroes like the seventeenth century Mughal Prince, Dara Shikoh. Here was a man who possessed the humanity to see spirituality in everything and who [...]
I protest Nawaz Sharif’s visit to the holy land of Sindh – by Dr Saif ur Rehman
I am amazed that Nawaz Sharif is visiting the holy land of Sindh. I've used words "holy land" because Sindh is the land of sufis and saints, and it is the land of Bhuttos. It will not be wrong to say that there is no room for the likes of Nawaz Sharif in this holy land. Sindh is one of the strongholds of Pakistan Peoples Party and home to [...]
Mr Sharif, make us safe again! – by Syed Nadir El-Edroos
Disclaimer: I use the word “operation” to suggest any action taken by the Government of Punjab that recognises an internal threat and within the confines of the law undertakes action to rid militants from the province. The government of Punjab has accused the Minister of Interior Rehman Malik, of indulging in “provincial prejudice”. [...]
Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan and the flock of sycophants – by R.A. Toori
Politics in Pakistan is a murky business. It is historical fact, evidences substantiate it and proves strengthen it. The question is where does the fault lie? Which are the factors that are making politics a dirty game? What is the root cause that Pakistani politics is yet dubbed with mud and loath? Definitely there is no single factor behind this [...]














































