Tag: Pakistan Muslim League (N)

LAHORE: Information minister Fawad Chaudhry on Sunday said that the prospect of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) joining hands to launch a movement against the government did not make the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) nervous at all. “Thugs of Pakistan will be the right title for their alliance, which is destined to fail just like Bollywood flick Thugs of Hindustan.” He once again claimed that the political careers of PPP Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari and PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif had ended. Chaudhry said Pakistan had faced a debt of Rs 6 trillion when the government of former president General Pervez Musharraf ended, but the debt rose by 84 per cent to Rs 30 trillion when Nawaz Sharif’s tenure ended. “Where has this money gone?” he asked. He alleged that Sharif’s children had become “billionaires” at an age when an average Pakistani child was not even eligible to be issued a national identity card. The minister said that the ruling PTI had dismantled the web of corrupt alliances in the country. “The verdicts are quite obvious as the owners have failed to defend their properties,” he said in response to a question. Recounting the government’s achievements on the economic front, he said a vivid change was happening on a daily basis. “France has changed its travel advisory while others are ready to do the same due to the improved political situation in Pakistan. The government is willing to ease visa restrictions in order to attract tourists and more investment in the country.” Countries like United States, China, Saudi Arabia and the European Union are willing to invest in Pakistan, he added.

SITTING stony-faced at the back of a business-class cabin on an Etihad flight from London to the Pakistani city of Lahore, Nawaz Sharif waited patiently for his arrest on the evening of July 13th. Journalists ignored the pleas of cabin staff to stay in their seats. It had also given a seven-year sentence to Maryam. When he did decide to return, just 12 days before a general election, there was much speculation that his flight might be diverted to Islamabad to avoid possible attempts by supporters to prevent his arrest in Lahore, his hometown. It may have helped that there had been an intense crackdown on Mr Sharif’s supporters in Lahore. Around 10,000 police were deployed across the city to prevent a column of tens of thousands of his fans from reaching the airport. Mr Sharif, 68, who retains control of the PML-N, says his sentencing was part of a military-backed conspiracy to deny his party a second term in office and to take revenge on him personally for trying to limit the army’s overweening influence after he began his third stint as prime minister in 2013. He questioned how credible the election would be with the government “taking such action against our people”. “This is worse than dictatorship,” she groaned while waiting in the business-class lounge of Abu Dhabi airport. But, as Mr Sharif put it before leaving London: “These people did not even remember in their hate what stature daughters have in Pakistan.” (the late Ms Bhutto was one such: she went on to become prime minister after her father, a former prime minister, was hanged.)

MULTAN: Pakistan Peoples Party Chairperson Bilawal Bhutto Zardari remarked on Monday that former prime minister Nawaz Sharif has been ousted from the country's politics. Bilawal stressed that PPP wants a law which holds everyone equally accountable. “We want a strong election commission over which no one has any reservations,” he remarked. Over his claims pertaining to making a separate province in South Punjab, the PPP chairperson said that PPP has always worked in South Punjab. Responding to Supreme Court's suo motu notice of delay in the provision of justice to Model Town victims, he said: "We have been raising the Model Town issue for a while now. We hope that justice is dispensed to the victims." The PPP chief is also expected address a workers' convention later today. 'PML-N, PTI have anti-people policies' While addressing workers in Multan on Sunday, Bilawal said that the ruling Pakistan Muslim-League-Nawaz and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf have anti-people policies. On Saturday, Bilawal said that after coming into power his party would create a new province in southern Punjab. Bilawal said that in future his political centre would be based in Multan and he would work for the betterment of the public.

KAMALIA: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) president Shehbaz Sharif on Sunday criticised Imran Khan for voting in favour Asif Ali Zardari's candidate for deputy chairman in the Senate elections, despite having lambasted the former president on numerous occasions. "Bilawal says that Imran uncle would again vote for the Peoples Party," he told participants at a gathering in Kamalia tehsil of Toba Tek Singh district in Punjab. "Who is Imran trying to fool?" The Punjab chief minister said that their opponents always did politics of sit-in and shutdowns. He vowed to end this politics of allegations in the forthcoming elections. Shehbaz further attacked the PTI's "negative" style of politics, saying that the Imran Khan-led party's "politics of anarchy" is a conspiracy against the people of Pakistan. "We will have to end personal conflicts, false accusations and blame games, if we are to achieve Quaid's vision of Pakistan," the acting PML-N president continued. Highlighting the progress achieved during the past five years under PML-N's tenure, Shehbaz vowed that load-shedding will be eliminated by the end of the ongoing year. Since 2013, when PML-N came to power, it has invested in thousands of megawatts of power, he said. The minister vowed that if given another chance at government, the party will bring the Metro Bus service to Faisalabad.