Tag: Nawaz Sharif
Nawaz Sharif’s bail order – Saad Rasool
Saad Rasool | Over the past few months, PML(N) spin-machine had been creating a (public) narrative concerning the ailing health of Nawaz Sharif, and the...
IHC summons medical reports of Nawaz Sharif
News Desk | The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday (today) has issued notices to National Accountability Bureau (NAB), accountability court (AC), and superintendent Kot...
Nawaz’s health: Punjab govt. strongly refutes Maryam’s claims
News Desk | Maryam Nawaz Sharif, daughter of former premier Nawaz Sharif alleged in her social media message on Friday Jan11 that the access to...
Is PML-N going to face a leadership crisis?
News Analysis| Embattled Opposition leader in the National Assembly Mr. Shahbaz Sharif and his son Mr. Hamza Shahbaz, opposition leader in Punjab Assembly, are going...
IHC denies immediate relief to Nawaz
News Analysis | The Islamabad High Court (IHC) has finally accepted a plea by the lawyers of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif for an early...
What is the future of Nawaz Sharif?
News Analysis | Federal Minister for Information Fawad Chaudhry has said that the decision of an accountability court against the ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif...
Inside Nawaz’s jail cell
News Desk | The ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has been shifted to Kot Lakhpat jail from Adiala Jail on Tuesday, Dec 25 (today) where...
Nawaz Sharif gets 7-year jail term in Al-Azizia Steel Mills reference
News Desk | Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has been sentenced to seven years in prison apart from a fine of $25 million in the...
‘My conscience is clear,’ says Nawaz ahead of accountability court’s verdict
News Desk | Ahead of the accountability court's verdict which will decide the fate of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in two corruption references, the PML-N supreme...
Will Nawaz Sharif be arrested again: Court to announce on 24th...
News Analysis | An accountability court has reserved its verdict in the National Accountability Bureau's (NAB) Flagship Investment and Al-Azizia references against the ousted Prime...
Al-Azizia corruption reference: Nawaz trying to save a sinking ship?
News Analysis| Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif appeared before the accountability court on Monday for the hearing of the Al Azizia Steel Mills reference and...
Nawaz starts Mukk Mukka politics again with PPP to contest October...
News Analysis | Former Prime Minister and Pakistan Muslim League- Nawaz’s Supreme Leader, Nawaz Sharif has extended an olive branch towards the Pakistan People’s Party...
Sharifs are still ‘convicts’ despite the controversial IHC verdict
News Analysis | In what has been touted as one of the most controversial decisions in the judicial history of Pakistan, the Islamabad High Court...
Imran Khan! Can he be Pakistan’s Nehru?
Ajaz Khan | “Imran Can’t”. That is how he was described in the 1970s when he graced the cricketing fields across the world. The rest,...
The civil-military argument – Saad Rasool
Saad Rasool | Throughout our history, Pakistan has been consumed by (an ongoing) debate about civil-military imbalance. This argument stands on two assertions, one factual...
Accountability court hears the NAB references against Nawaz Sharif
News Analysis | Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s Counsel Khawaja Harris, continued his cross-examination of star witness and head of the Joint Investigation Team (JIT)...
The love-hate Khan relationship – Saad Rasool
Saad Rasool | Politics has a weird way of distributing people into ideological camps. ‘Ideological’ here is being used as a concession to describe the...
Zardari, Talpur appear before FIA; record statements in money laundering case
News Analysis | Former president Asif Ali Zardari and his sister Faryal Talpur have appeared before a joint investigation team of the Federal Investigation Agency...
Imran Khan: Pakistan’s Jack Kennedy
Boase Roger | The words ‘hope’ and ‘Pakistan’ do not often appear together. Pakistan, a sprawling nation of 205 million, is hard to govern, even...
Politics Above Personality
News Desk | On the 25th of July, the whole world witnessed the second consecutive civilian transfer of power in Pakistan. There are good reasons...
Nawaz pulling the strings from Jail to defeat Khan
News Analysis | Jailed former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has directed party leaders to continue protest against alleged rigging on Election Day--July 25. In the...
PTI pushes out stubborn bigwigs
News Analysis | In its first ever nationwide victory, PTI has broken the power monopoly of certain figureheads belonging PPP, PML-N and other far right...
PML-Q demands post of CM Punjab or deputy prime minister slot;...
News Analysis | Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) is certain to form government in the country’s largest province, Punjab, but it is facing extreme challenges at the...
G.E’18: Ayesha Gulalai seriously needs to quit
News Desk | Pakistan Tehreek E Insaf defector and former MNA Ayesha Gulalai of the NA-1 Peshawar managed to bag all of 30 votes, according...
What Imran Khan means to Indian occupied Kashmir
Murtaza Shibli | Ghulam Nabi Ganai, a 67-year-old retired executive engineer, is elated about Imran Khan’s victory. As I enter his home in Frisal, a...
Aliens did not beat PMLN in elections, the common man did
Bushra Zafar | It was a hot and sultry morning, and I was part of the long queue outside the polling station in one of...
How accountable would be PTI’s Government?
News Analysis | Accountability- would start with him, with his cabinet and then would flow down to everyone, promised Imran Khan in his first address...
PM in-waiting IK’s victory speech and the promises he made
News Analysis | The Chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) and Prime Minister-in-waiting Imran Khan addressed the Nation, in what can be dubbed as his victory...
Election Results leave PML-N in a pool of tears
News Analysis | In what seems to be a reverse déjà vu of the 2013 general elections, incumbent – and apparently, outgoing – party; PML-N...
Chaudhry Nisar pays price for abandoning Nawaz
News Analysis | The unraveling results have shaken many Pakistani Political leaders whose historical statistics on polling results led to a prediction of guaranteed winnings...
A letter to Prime Minister Imran Khan
News Desk | Dear Mr. Prime Minister, On your obvious victory against your opponents, let us congratulate you on behalf of the people of Pakistan. People...
The Match and the Tournament!
Syed Haider Raza Mehdi | It's the last ball of the match and this time Imran has hit it clean out of the ground! It's...
Khan supporters celebrate as Pakistan faces electoral chaos
AFP | Pakistan woke to electoral chaos on Thursday with the outgoing ruling party denouncing "blatant rigging" in the pivotal general election and rejecting unofficial,...
What would count as valid or invalid vote: clarified by ECP
News Analysis | Pakistan is to hold 2018 General Elections tomorrow to elect lawmakers for the National and Provincial assemblies. The Election Commission of Pakistan...
Who & who are fighting Imran Khan?
Haider Raza Mehdi | Just look at the enemies surrounding Imran, the Supreme Court, NAB and the Army! Nawaz Sharif, Asif Zardari, Asfandyar Wali, Achakzai, Fazal,...
PTI led coalition government or PML-N+PPP coalition government?
News Analysis | Pakistan is set to enter into much-anticipated general elections 2018 amid qualms raised by different political parties whether the polls will be...