Posts Tagged ‘Nawaz Sharif’

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A dog in the manger Tuesday, February 03, 2009 Rawalpindi is currently plagued by a severe outbreak of dogs appearing in mangers. Mangers are for the hay that horses eat. Dogs do not eat hay. Dog frightens horse and does not eat hay. Dog goes hungry because it does not eat hay and horse goes hungry because the dog won't let it. Everybody [...]

Monkeys (Qazi Hussain Ahmed, Imran Khan, Nawaz Sharif) are fighting on their share of 'cheese'. But where is the cheese? (more...)

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* Bureaucracy being shielded by federal govt, transferred officers being welcomed in other provinces* PPP ministers not being accommodated, only Raja Riaz being listened toBy Amjad WarraichLAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif’s efforts to leave his personal mark on the provincial administration seem to be going in vain, mainly due to his [...]

Nawaz’s son-in-law asks Zardari to quitKhwaja Hoti’s son ‘formally’ joins PML-NFriday, January 16, 2009by Our correspondentMARDAN: Captain (R) Mohammad Safdar, member of the National Assembly and son-in-law of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, Thursday asked President Asif Ali Zardari to quit as he, according to (more...)

What's wrong with the 17th amendment?

Cholistan desert is a favorite hunting ground for deer hunting. Does Mian Nawaz Sharif, the leader of the Islamic forces in Pakistan, care for the plight of the people in Gaza?What would have been the munafiqeen's (Imran Khan, Qazi Hussain Ahmed and hamnawa) reaction if Zardari had announced similar plans (more...)

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Sharif family lose 80% of assets, says QureshiBy Ansar AbbasiISLAMABAD, Dec 10:The exile of the Sharif family to Saudi Arabia following the pardon announcement by the government, has deprived the Raiwind dwellers of their 15 assets, worth billions of rupees.A spokesman for the government, Maj-Gen Rashid Qureshi, told Dawn on Monday that almost 80 [...]

Nawaz and Shahbaz pay no taxISLAMABAD: The billionaire club of the Pakistani politicians, including the deposed prime minister Nawaz Sharif and his brother Shahbaz Sharif, does not pay any tax Despite having declared assets of Rs 676.8 million of the Sharif family, both the brothers filed a zero income tax and deficit wealth tax returns, last [...]

Nawaz Sharif, India & The ‘Daughters Game’ So happy are the Indians with Mr. Sharif that they ordered their ambassador to travel to Lahore and personally deliver Manmohan Singh’s regards to him. Meanwhile, the disgruntled former premier continues to play the ‘Daughters Game’, distracting Pakistanis as the nation prepares for a [...]

By MANSOOR HALLAJFriday, 19 December 2008.WWW.AHMED QURAISHI.COMISLAMABAD, Pakistan—On 18-12-2008 Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif gave an exclusive interview to a journalist namely Kamran Khan of Geo Tv who has a history of Yellow Journalism [Kamran Khan also contribute in an American Daily The Washington Post and [...]

By COL. RIAZ JAFRI (RETD.) www.ahme dquraishi.comRAWALPINDI, Pakistan—First it was Arsalan Iftikhar, then Farah Dogar and now something has surfaced against Mariam Nawaz Sharif. This takes me back to General Zia era, when a politician close to him had requested him for the favor of admitting his (more...)

Nawaz Sharif praying to God "Ya Allah Iss Scandal Say Mairi Jaan Chura": Cat proceeds to perform Hajj after eating 900 mice.......Maryam Nawaz Sharif and Farah Dogar: Daughter WarsWritten by: Sumaira As PML(N) is after the is after the daughter of chief justice Abdul Hameed Dogar, the MQM has sneaked in and distributing pamphlets about the illegal [...]

Sharif slams Zardari, says Kasab from Pakistan Challenging President Asif Ali Zardari’s assertion that there was no proof that the arrested Mumbai attacker hailed from Pakistan’s Punjab province, former premier Nawaz Sharif has said that the suspect’s village was cordoned off and his parents were not allowed to meet anyone. “I [...]

If Nawaz Sharif is sincere in implementing the "Meesaq-e-Jamhooriat" (the Democracy Accord), then he must stick to all the clauses of the (more...)

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By: SAJJAD on September 2, 2008TRUTH ABOUT HOW NAWAZ SHARIF TREATED THE MEDIA WHILST IN POWEROne of the highest profile harassment was the victimization and harassment of journalists who had cooperated in the production of (more...)

Is Nawaz Sharif a political investment of Osama bin Laden?Daily Times, March 21, 2006Nawaz met Osama, received funds: ex-ISI officer* Says Osama funded Sharif to help dismiss PPP govt* Calls Bin Laden a ‘great man’Daily Times MonitorLAHORE: A former official of the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) has said that former prime minister Nawaz [...]

Power-sharing in PunjabDEMOCRACY by definition is time-consuming. It is supposed to work through consultation, if not consensus, which takes time. But this should be no excuse for deferring and delaying things indefinitely. It is, therefore, shocking that the two partners in Punjab’s provincial government — the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) [...]

THE federal cabinet’s decision to reinstate 6,000 officials (with full benefits) sacked in 1996, ostensibly on political grounds, will be welcomed. It comes as a reminder of how ‘the steel frame’ of the Raj in South Asia that Pakistan inherited at the time of independence has been demolished over the years. The unfortunate tradition that the [...]

An interesting analysis:PML-N lacks vision and organization.PML-N is solely dependent on Nawaz Sharif's personal charisma.PML-N gets votes because of its Center Right inclinations.Shahbaz Sharif is the key difference (more...)

We never learn from history – 6By Ardeshir CowasjeeIN this God-given, Jinnah-founded country of ours it is safe to assume that the majority of those who manage to be elected to our assemblies, or appointed to positions of power, or to squirm their way into politics are shrewd enough to realise that they are actually good for nothing other than [...]

Taliban Hit List: A Where's Waldo? Pakistani StyleAn interesting hit list has emerged from the Taliban in Pakistan. From Syed Saleem Shahzad in the Asia Times, see if you can guess who is missing from the list. The initial skirmishes have already started in NWFP, where members and political allies of the ruling Pashtun sub-nationalist Awami [...]

In his op-ed today, Ata-ul-Haq Qasimi stresses the need to remember 5 July 1977 in the same spirit that PML(N) would like to remember 12 October 1999. Qasimi also notes that the agents of ISI and Taliban spread dirty propaganda against Nawaz Sharif and Shahbaz Sharif after the Musharraf coup (more...)

The terror of this warBy Cyril AlmeidaSUB-OPTIMAL. That’s probably the most generous way to describe statecraft in Pakistan.A week of debate on the debate in parliament and I’m ready to run to the hills. Or perhaps into the sea, given the threat lurking up in Pakistan’s hills.Start with the army. Gen Kayani is fighting a bloody insurgency in [...]

In its editorial on 10 October 2008, Daily Dawn deplores the undue haste with which some political leaders including those belonging to PML(N) (as well as Jamaat-e-Islami) declared the in camera briefing unsatisfactory. This suggests that PML(N) is busy in political point scoring instead of helping the people of Pakistan in their war against [...]

No consensus in sight on terror war policy: Joint session to resume on MondayBy Ahmed Hassan (Dawn Report)ISLAMABAD, Oct 9: If the government aims at creating a national consensus on its strategy in the “war on terror” through the joint session of parliament, it seems to have failed in its objective as all opposition groups have been [...]

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