Posts Tagged ‘Nawaz Sharif’

Dr. Abbas Zaidi has shared this intellectual piece with us for LUBP. A slightly edited  version is published in Dailytimes today, we have posted it earlier from the newspaper, Now we are replacing it with the complete, unedited and original one directly sent by the writer.(aliarqam) In the backdrop of the public lynching and then hanging of [...]

Indeed the natural and no less man-made calamity of the floods is still continuing across Pakistan. The scale of devastation is so horrendously huge and still so incalculable that no government or agency of any capacity could cope with what the UN Secretary General has described as a “continuing tsunami”. Cursing a most vilified government [...]

LAHORE: Kudos! The main leaders of the PPP and the PML-N have shown maturity by shunning their differences and joining hands to help the flood victims in all federating units of the country. Hats off to Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani and PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif who, by addressing a joint press conference in the federal capital, [...]

At the onset I would like to acknowledge that I have very mixed feelings about MQM. At one hand, I like its relatively secular approach and its demonstrated commitment to denounce hardliners when everyone else was actually going for an appeasement policy which in reality would have merely strengthened them in the Northern part of Pakistan. I [...]

Source: Associated PressIs there is a tiff between the brothers? Are they missing the late “Abbaji”? Maybe it is the “good cop, bad cop” being played by the brothers. Stay tuned for more insider information. Drifting apart? By Asim Awan Express Tribune, 24th July, 2010 ISLAMABAD: Like all interesting political stories out of [...]

Source: Justice Denied PK Justice Iftikhar of the Lahore High Court has struck a blow for democracy. He has granted a bail before arrest to the selfless civil servant and policeman par excellence, Rana Maqbool Ahmed, formerly of Sind Police department and currently in charge of public prosecution in the Punjab. This kind-hearted and mild [...]

Former Finance Minister and Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) leader Senator Muhammad Ishaq Dar, who proclaims and pleads simplicity, is going to organize the wedding of his son Mujtaba Dar in the most expensive hotel of Dubai on July 25. According to sources, the marriage would be held in Atlantis Palm Jameirah, the hotel which is situated at [...]

There are few things which cannot be compromised based on our religious teachings. Firstly, if you ever find out that your Imam in the mosque is corrupt (likes to have a drink once in a while, when mood is good call his lady friend for company), you would not pray behind a corrupt man and that is what Islam tells us. Similarly being a judge [...]

Apparently after his legendary seventeen attacks on various targets including but not limited to Altaf Hussain, Benazir Bhutto, Asif Ali Zardari, Fazlur-Rehman etc, the loose cannon khan (Imran Khan) has directed his gun towards PML-N's leader Nawaz Sharif. Here is a chain of events: Imran for action against PML-N’s ‘rigging plan’ By [...]

Due to the demands of a majority of Pakistanis and leaders like Shahbaz Sharif, Imran Khan, Munawar Hussain and other such groovy people, the Pakistan government has signed a peace agreement with the Taliban in Waziristan and South Punjab. The peace deal comes after several rounds of negotiations and many glasses of orange juice. The major [...]

  The support base of Nawaz Sharif and family i.e. the judiciary has struck again, providing relief to the family against NAB. It is all but strange that appeals against NAB in favor of Nawaz Sharif are acted upon in a hasty matter whereas PPP leaders like Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto, Asif Zardari, Yusuf Raza Gilani and others had to wait [...]

Terrorists have once again attacked the Lahore city, this time their target was the sacred shrine of Hazrat Data Ganj Bakhsh Ali Hajveri, a Persian Sufi and scholar during the 11th century who significantly contributed to the spreading of Islam in South Asia. In the past, the terrorists have attacked a number of shrines in various parts of [...]

PML-N’s links to the Pakistan Army are well known. People supporting the Sharifs are at critical positions in the scheme of things in the Pakistan Army and the Intelligence. The brothers were protected for years by key people in the military establishment. Had that not been the case, then Nawaz Sharif would not have been able to escape [...]

First published at: Kashif Naseer ka blog کہانی ایک شریف جج کی ہمارے یہاں جو لوگ مقام قضاء پر فائز کئے جاتے ہیں، اکثر قاضی بن کر بھی اپنے ماضی میں گم رہتے ہیں۔ طلبہ یونین سے لیکر بار ایسوسیشن کی سیاست کے تمام [...]

Shaheen Sehbai in his article on 28th June has instigated on Mian brothers to bid adieu to the Charter of Democracy and unfurl a new series of disrespect to the people’s mandate. Earlier, some other rightist columnists have also suggested the unleashing of the efforts to destabilise PPP government in the Centre. And in the words of Shaheen [...]

Well done, Nawaz Sharif for speaking out in favour of a neutral Afghan policy which respects the wishes of the Afghan people and their elected leaders. We will always remember your brave attempt at peace with India in your second term which was derailed by Musharraf's misadventure in Kargil and by the demagogues of Jamaat-e-Islami. From [...]

In a recent press conference Mian Nawaz Sharif - the head of the largest opposition Party Pakistan Muslim League-N (PMLN) - claimed that terrorism in Pakistan is a result of government’s foreign policies. Sharif made the commen ts two days after two terrorist suicide bombers had attacked the most popular Sufi shrine in Punjab. The province [...]

Pakistan opposition chief backs talks with Taliban By ASIF SHAHZAD (AP) ISLAMABAD — Pakistan's top opposition leader said Saturday that the government should negotiate with the country's Taliban militants to ease the relentless security crisis in the nuclear-armed, U.S.-allied nation. Nawaz Sharif made the comments two days after a pair [...]

It was a priceless line, coming from one of the most powerful politicians in the Punjab. Speaking to BBC’s ‘Newshour’ in the aftermath of Data Darbar’s bombing, Punjab Chief Minister Mian Shahbaz Sharif said he thinks the term Punjabi Taliban is: “an insult to the Punjabis, because we never say Pukhtun Taliban, Sindhi Taliban or Baloch [...]

Due to General Zia Ul Haq's long dictatorship — it was undoubtedly, the darkest period in the history of Pakistan's polity — Pakistan has become the land of turbulence and crisis. Today, we are facing insurmountable problems like terrorism, democratic crises and political instability. It's really sad fact that General Zia's followers political [...]

  Oppositional economics? By S. Akbar Zaidi Dawn, July 2, 2010 NOW that Nawaz Sharif and his party, the PML-N, have decided to play the role of a ‘genuine’ opposition to the incumbent government after having played the role of a rather docile and complicit opposition for two years, is one going to see a different perspective [...]

Nawaz Sharif, Muslim League's of all kinds, elements in the army, religious parties and some other Nadan Dosts have one agenda and that is to discredit PPP government and bring an obscurantist ideological government in place which in essence would potentially be towing the line of the Talibans. They have done country wrong in the past and they [...]

The PPP has upped the ante for Nawaz Sharif by questioning him about his motives. MNS goes into a cocoon for some time, only to wake up from his hibernation and make statements which are not statesman like. It is in indeed true that Nawaz Sharif has not learned anything from the past. PPP’s Fauzia Wahab has raised this important point that [...]

Skunk is a small animal found in the wild. It looks beautiful from distance. It has beautiful white stripe going through middle of his body all the way through its tail. One of the defense this animal has against its enemies is to spray a liquid with a strong foul smelling odor. While abroad on a hunting trip, I had the experience of such [...]

This country has over 70% population which is illiterate (almost 120 million out of 170 million). Then the ones who are literate are all not graduates. I don't have figures but I would assume there aren't more than 20 million graduates in Pakistan or may be 30 million. So it is very safe to assume that close to 150 million people who are not [...]

امریکہ کرسکتا ہے ہم کیوں نہیں کر سکتے ؟ آجکل مختلف ٹاک شوز پر امریکی جرنیل میک کرسٹل کی برطرفی کے حوالے سے سوال اٹھایا جارہا ہے کہ امریکہ میں اگر ایک جرنیل کو برطرف کیا جا سکتا ہے تو پاکستان میں [...]

There is no doubt that PML-N is the party of industrialists, business men, traders, middle men of Pakistani business economy and definitely extremists with no beard on their face. So it works for the sake of these people and parties only. It uses the name of Muslim League but it has no contact with Muslim League which founded Pakistan. It is [...]

Source:http://atharmasood.wordpress.com/2010/06/24/asif-zardari-ki-kaun-si-baat-samjh-main-naheen-aayee/

Question 1: Which political party claims to be a torch bearer of principled politics and the rule of law in Pakistan? Answer: PML-N Question 2: Which political party has the highest number of members of national and provincial assemblies disqualified because of fake academic qualifications? Answers: PML-N Question 3: What does the 'N' [...]

Pakistan’s religious parties have responded with one voice to a statement of PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif that he stood by the Ahmadi community “who are like our brothers.” They have condemned Sharif and questioned whether he “still is a Muslim.” “It is ironic that religious parties who were silent when over 70 members of the Ahmedi [...]

Hal jaza al ihsan illal ihsan ("Is the reward of goodness anything other than goodness?") True to highest standards of Islamic ideals, Justice Khawaja Sharif of the Lahore High Court today ensured to repay the goodness done to him by Shahbaz Sharif and Nawaz Shaif by dismissing petitions seeking their disqualification. Before you read the [...]

Hamid Mir in his column titled “Jamhooriat aur Tuhmat Ka Culture” has supported Asma Jahangir in the recent linking of her candidature for the position of SCBA president with “Zardari Camp” as created by Ansar Abbasi and gang. The article basically talks about the way Pakistanis like to throw allegations at people and then gullibly [...]

In the last few days, it is really refreshing to see Nawaz Sharif's bold stance on various issues including the 18th amendment and also on the Ahmadi massacre in Lahore. We provide below excerpts from some news reports from national and international press in appreciation of Nawaz Sharif. According to daily Dawn: "Pakistan Muslim League-N [...]

ہماری داستاں تک بھی نہ ہو گی داستانوں میں....سویرے سویرے …نذیرناجی اسلام میں مذہبی پیشواؤں کی گنجائش نہیں ہے۔ دین کو پیشہ بنانے کی بھی اجازت نہیں ۔ اسی چیز کو روکنے کے لئے اللہ تعالی اور رسول [...]

What kind of sick democracy do we live in, where the declaration of equality of all citizens of the state can be deemed unconstitutional? This twisted logic was deployed by the JUI-F in its criticism of Nawaz Sharif’s comments describing Ahmadis as ‘brothers and sisters’ who are an ‘asset to the country’. Among several other absurd [...]

Source: The News, June 11, 2010 By our correspondent LAHORE: Chairman Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Imran Khan has announced to issue a white paper to expose the corruption of PML-N Quaid Nawaz Sharif. Addressing a press conference on Thursday, the PTI leader also slated the Punjab government for victimising the PTI workers through police. He [...]

نواز شریف اور دائرہ اسلام چوراہا…حسن نثار اتنی آسانی سے تو بچے کا نام سکول سے خارج نہیں ہوتا جتنی آسانی سے کچھ لوگ دوسروں کو دائرہ اسلام سے خارج قرار دے دیتے ہیں جیسے یہ دین کا نہیں ان کا کوئی [...]

Khariji mullahs threaten Nawaz Sharif with fatwa of kufr (apostasy) in retribution of his statement on Ahmadis; they also term Ahmadi massacre in Lahore as an Ahmadi conspiracy against Islam and Pakistan Pakistan's opposition leader and chief of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz Group (PML-N) Nawaz Sharif has been censured by clerics of different [...]

Source There at least three things to celebrate in the most recent statement of the Quaid of Pakistan Muslim League (N), Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif: 1. Ahmadis are our brothers and sisters; they are citizens of Pakistan; it is government's responsibility to ensure Ahmadis' security (against terrorism). 2. It is an insult of the Pakistani [...]