Posts Tagged ‘PML-N’

  In his long speech on the Federal Budget, Chaudhry Nisar also demanded imposition of Agricultural Tax. Off course, he was playing to the galleries and MQM, who has been demanding the same from the government for many years. In response, State Minister for Information and Broadcasting, Samsam Bukhari said that “This job (of agriculture [...]

On one hand the opposition demands providing relief to the common man and as the government tries to do so, the Leader of the Opposition, Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan roars why did you increase salaries to give relief! I am confused. In the report published in daily Jang, Chaudhry Nisar while starting the debate on Federal Budget 2010-11, questions why [...]

It is very difficult to build something but it is very easy to destruct it. In our Islamic history, we find that the age of the Prophet Muhammad (S.A.W.W) was 40 when he started spreading Islam. He was teased and tortured and it was hardest time for the Truth but he continued to build the infrastructure of Peace. He was compelled to live out of [...]

جھگڑا ’پنجابی طالبان‘ کا اعجاز مہر بی بی سی اردو ڈاٹ کام، اسلام آباد پاکستان کی نصف آبادی والے صوبے پنجاب میں دہشت گردی کے حالیہ خوفناک واقعات کے بعد مرکزی اور پنجاب کی صوبائی حکومتوں کے [...]

On May 28, Taliban extremists killed at least 93 members of the Ahmadi religious sect and injured around 100 others in attacks on two Ahmadi's worship places during Friday prayer services in Lahore. According to local police, more than 10 terrorists attacked the Ahmadis, who Muslims consider heretics. Despite their claim to Islam, Ahmadis have [...]

Nawaz Sharif giving in to party leaders? Ummat, 3rd June 2010

After my initial response to the report that was published in various newspapers (http://criticalppp.com/archives/12193), I downloaded the  National Corruption Perception Survey 2010 by the Transparency International-Pakistan (TIP). The report is biased without an iota of doubt. Some of the points are given below for the readers to make up [...]

In today’s Dawn, it has been reported that Government of Punjab is ignoring reports of Crime Investigation Department (CID) to take actions against banned sectarian and Jihadi organizations which have found their way into Punjab. This forum and other PPP supporters have been trying to expose the links of the PML-N government in Punjab to these [...]

Rana Sanaullah. — APP Photo HYDERABAD: A large number of civil society activists staged a rally from Sindh University’s old campus to the press club here on Tuesday to condemn Friday’s attacks on worship places of Ahmadis in Lahore and the resultant loss of precious lives. They raised slogans against Taliban and urged the Punjab [...]

Source : AJF

An Ahmadi man weeps as victims are loaded onto an ambulance after gunmen attacked their place of worship in Lahore's Garhi Shahu neighborhood on May 28, 2010. –Reuters Photo/Mohsin Raza I saw the news of the massacre much after it had happened, being out of the house when I received an alert on my cell about “12” people getting killed in [...]

A lawyer’s ‘safarnama’ A Lahore lawyer Khwaja Muhammad Sharif travelled to the Philippines and the UK in 1995 and carefully recorded his observations during the tour. His jottings became the book that appeared titled Shakh-e-Nazuk kay Ashiyanay (Nests built on a Weak Branch) published by Kausar Brothers Publishers, Turner Road Lahore. [...]

Members of the Ahmadi community console a grieving woman at a graveyard in Chenab Nagar, located in Punjab's Chiniot District, about 200 km northwest of Lahore, May 29, 2010. — Reuters Here is yet another case of systematic violence against the Ahmadi community under the patronage of PML-N's Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, a political ally of [...]

I am a strong believer that political parties should get ample opportunities to run governments than just sitting on the opposition benches. When it comes to the likes of PPP, which inarguably is the largest political party of Pakistan, it is all the more important get into power. If one analyzes the history of the PPP ever since it was founded by [...]

Here is an analysis in Urdu on the Ahmadi massacre in Lahore by the Punjabi Taliban and the culpable role of PML-N's government in Punjab. (more...)

In Picture: Rana Sanullah, PML-N's Law Minister (Punjab Government) with the head of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan in an election rally Lashkar-i-Jhangvi connection traced to Lahore attacks By Abdul Manan May 31, 2010 LAHORE: One of main suspects in the attacks on the Ahmadiyya community, Abdullah, has close ties with the banned organisation [...]

Consider this scenario: officially more than 100 people were killed in attacks on Ahmedi mosques in Lahore on Friday, May 28, 2010. Unofficially, Ahmedis say that more than 150 are dead. The media very quickly started calling the mosques as “place of worship” for they fear that the wrath of mullas would be on them. Suddenly the Aalmi [...]

The most certain feature of Pakistan’s democracy is an uncertainty of its future. The optimistic view describes the current difficulties as the issues of transition from a military-dominated political order to a participatory civilian political system, which will take time to settle down. The current problems are the transitional problems on [...]

Salman Taseer, Governor of Punjab, is on Twitter for the last few weeks. His tweeting style has been described as candid and uncanny. For example, Taseer does not shy away from making frank comments about his opposition in Punjab, i.e., the Sharif brothers. Taseer often uses twitter to update about his activities or views; and frankly speaks what [...]

After the heinous attacks on Ahmadi mosques in Lahore, we have seen numerous statements that Punjabi Taliban and Sipah Sihaba are involved in this target killing. (more...)

Man sets himself on fire in front of Punjab CM’s complaint cell * Mehmood Akhtar sought financial help from provincial government only to be humiliated, beaten up * Faisalabad DCO ignored Mehmood’s requests for help * Nawaz calls for high-level inquiry into reasons for Mehmood’s actions LAHORE: Homeless and in need of shelter, [...]

Last night Abid Sher Ali MNA from PML-N had used slanderous language against Governor Salman Taseer in the presence of Fauzia Wahab MNA and Information Secretary PPP at a TV talk show ‘Off the record’ hosted by Kashif Abbasi.  It was a moment of shame for whole nation that we have such illiterate politicians in our country who don’t feel [...]

When a chief justice provokes people to violence Lahore High Court’s Chief Justice has been provoking the lawyer community to take vigilante actions against Pakistan’s People’s Party (PPP) so that the democratically elected government is either sacked and the army returns to power, or new elections are held and somehow Nawaz Shiarif’s [...]

Kamran Shahid quotes some excerpts from Justice Khwaja Muhammad Sharif's books in which he expresses his relationship with and gratitude to Nawaz Sharif and Shahbaz Sharif. Source: Express 8 May 2010

ISLAMABAD: The civil and military bureaucracy should be scrutinised by the parliamentary public accounts committee, however, the judiciary can opt for whatever it wants and parliamentarians will respect its position, provided it takes a declared position. If this was the crux of the message conveyed by opposition leader Chaudhry Nisar on [...]

The suicide blast in Peshawar on April 19 that claimed 23 lives was a little different, in the sense that instead of targeting the ANP, as usual, the suicide bomber chose a Jamaat-e-Islami demonstration to detonate himself. The Naib Amir of the Jamaat, Sirajul Haq, was quick to blame the government that had failed to protect people's lives [...]

Punjab Governor Salman Taseer is consistently showing  his concern on the rapid progress of Sipah Sahaba under the patronage PML-N punjab provincial government. Recently I observed Maulana Ahmed Ludhinvi banners all over Gujrawala city which was quite alarming for me . We need to support Salman Taseer for raising his voice over SSP and [...]

It is a common thought in Pakistan that both the big political parties of Pakistan have not done good with their 2nd tier leadership who were running the parties during the Musharraf’s reign when the top leadership of both parties was out of the country or was in prison. It is alleged that the PPP has ignored AMIN FAHIM and PML-N has ignored [...]

The Lahore High Court Judgment on Ajmal Asif is such a blatant example of discrimination by judges. On same account Nazir Jutt ( former MNA and election candidate from NA-167 ) was disqualified only because he was PPP ticket holder? Is this Justice my lord? Following are the newspaper reports on both judgments of LHC. Notice issued to Nazir Jatt [...]

Claims invisible force trying to pit parliament against judiciary; an eye-opening interview with PML-N spokesman By Ahmad Noorani ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has officially stated that the judiciary can lose its respect and its role will become controversial if it hears the petitions, challenging the 18th Amendment [...]

PML-N has decided to stand by the parliament rather than supporting the undemocratic judiciary that has already formed a five-member bench to review the 18th amendment petitions. The only way that democracy can survive in Pakistan is for the two parties to stick together against the anti-democratic establishment. Benazir Bhutto understood this [...]

Picture Source: Attack on a Shia funeral in D.I. Khan Yesterday, the LUBP posted an article about Malik Ishaq, a most dangerous terrorist of Sipah-e-Sahaba, who is about to be released by Shahbaz Sharif’s government. Previously we have pointed to the sinister affiliation between various members of the PML-N's government in Punjab, namely Rana [...]

First the sorrow, now the fear By Asad Kharal Thirteen years ago, Fida Hussain Ghalvi and three other witnesses boldly testified against Lashkar-e-Jhangvi’s top hitman Malik Ishaq for the killing of 12 members of their family. They didn’t know that their search for justice would lead them nowhere, the ordeal had just begun... LAHORE: [...]

* PML-N leaders accused of embezzling Rs 65m in commissions against bogus development schemes in Faisalabad Aaj Kal Report LAHORE: Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah and Faisalabad parliamentarian Abid Sher Ali have been named in a financial scam regarding the receipt of commissions of around Rs 65 million from contractors working on bogus [...]

Pakistan’s power elite will increasingly come from the cities and not from the rural hinterland. This will have a profound impact not just on politics, but on society as a whole. Writes Irfan Hussain. (more...)

In 1947 the only established student organisation in the newly created country of Pakistan was the Muslim Students Federation (MSF), the student-wing of the Muslim League. The Muslim League began to disintegrate as Pakistan’s first ruling party. Consequently, the MSF too started to reflect the fragmentary nature of its mother [...]

This is common knowledge that Sharifs cannot live without Generals. Right from their birth into Pakistani politics (courtesy Geneal Jilani), their ascendance to the Lahore throne (courtesy General Zia) and their premiership of the land of the pure (courtesy General Aslam Beg and General Hamid Gul), they have very shrewdly played their cards in [...]

There is a real civil unrest on the horizon. We can verify the timings, immediately after the passing of 18th amendment. When the celebrations were about to take the second turn, instead we saw rallies and protests on power crisis first and soon after we saw a sudden popping up of a civil unrest on the ‘disputed’ name of previously NWFP, [...]

تحریر: حکیم حاذق خط بنام برادر عبداللہ خادمِ حرمین شریفین، جلالۃ الملک،عزت مآب، برادرِ محترم جناب ملک عبداللہ صاحب اپنے عاصی و گنہ گار بھائی کی طرف سے سلامِ عقیدت قبول کیجیے۔ میں اور آپ کی [...]

Source: Daily Times LAHORE: Although politicians earned a good name through the 18th Amendment, the “democrats” among them closed the door for democracy within their parties as parliament passed the clause on intra-party polls unanimously, according to sources. PML-N stalwarts Makhdoom Javed Hashmi and Khawaja Saad Rafique narrowly [...]