By Ali Raza in The News, December 14, 2023LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim league Nawaz (PMLN) supremo and former prime minister Nawaz Sharif said on Wednesday he did not want revenge from anyone for what had happened to him but it was necessary to bring to account the culprits. The games with the country would not stop if no one was held accountable, he said. Addressing the party leaders and participants in the 8th meeting of PMLN…
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By Asim Yasin in The News, December 09, 2023ISLAMABAD: The Combined Investigation Team (CIT) of National Accountability Bureau (NAB) probing Toshakhana case has summoned Bushra Bibi on Monday (December 11). The CIT NAB is investigating a case pertaining to misuse of authority and misappropriation in sale of gifted state assets etc against Imran khan and others. The NAB stated that Bushra Bibi was summoned multiple times to produce the state gifts but she failed to…
by Mubashir Hassan in The Nation, Dec 9, 2023LAHORE – Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader and former prime minister Nawaz Sharif Friday renewed his demand for accountability of former military generals and judges for ruining the country by ousting his government in 2017. Addressing the party’s parliamentary board which is finalising the tickets for the February 8 general elections, Sharif said: “We do not want to come into power to roam around in luxury cars…
report in The Express Tribune, Dec 9th, 2023LAHORE: PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif on Friday said his party was not in pursuit of power, but gave priority to the accountability of those people who were responsible for implicating him in “fabricated” cases that led to his ouster as the prime minister in 2017. “This [accountability] is necessary so that the truth can be known to the people and justice can prevail,” he said while addressing a…
By Iftikhar A. Khan in Dawn, November 3rd, 2023ISLAMABAD: In a controversial move, the Senate on Thursday extended the National Accountability (Amendment) Ordinance, 2023, for another 120 days. A resolution to this effect was moved in the house by Law Minister Ahmad Irfan Aslam. Earlier, the minister laid in the Senate the National Accountability (Amendment) Ordinance, 2023, (Ordinance No. I of 2023), as required by clause (2) of Article 89 of the Constitution. The extension…
by Zulqernain Tahir in Dawn, October 4th, 2023LAHORE: The PML-N says it has deferred its demand for accountability of former generals and judges who allegedly had Nawaz Sharif “dethroned”, until an “appropriate time”, adding that it hasn’t “forgotten these characters”. The party also announced on Tuesday that supreme leader Nawaz Sharif will get protective bail ahead of his return to the country on Oct 21 and surrender to court in the Al Azizia corruption case…
by Zulqernain Tahir in Dawn, Sept 27th, 2023LAHORE: With the PML-N seemingly undecided what its narrative would be in the upcoming elections, a close aide of PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif has claimed the party was not “demanding accountability of former army chief Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa and former ISI head Gen Faiz Hamid.” His statement coincided with reports from London that Mr Nawaz was having second thoughts to his stated position on his demand for…
Zulqernain Tahir in Dawn, Sept 26th, 202• Insiders say Shehbaz, sons are trying to talk the elder Sharif down• Ex-PM says no changes to elder brother’s homecoming planLAHORE: With his aggressive stance, demanding the accountability of former generals and judges, making some within the party uneasy ahead of his planned return to Pakistan on Oct 21, PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif is giving his stated position “a second thought”, party insiders told Dawn on Monday. “Although…
By Ansar Abbasi in The News, September 26, 2023ISLAMABAD: Nawaz Sharif’s note, sent to Khawaja Asif in January 2020, on the issue of the extension of the then Army Chief General (R) Qamar Javed Bajwa, is a major contradiction in his narrative of seeking accountability of the ex-COAS and others for conspiring against his government in 2017. The PMLN, in January 2020, had unconditionally endorsed the legislation, moved by the PTI government, to give three-year…
By MEERA SRINIVASAN in The Island, June 25, 2023Accountability remains the “fundamental gap” in Sri Lanka’s attempts to deal with the past, a senior U.N. official has said while warning that “as long as impunity prevails, Sri Lanka will achieve neither genuine reconciliation nor sustainable peace.” Referring to the Sri Lankan government’s plans to set up a Truth Commission, to probe allegations of war crimes and grave human rights violations during the country’s civil war,…