By Muhammad Saleh Zaafir in The News, Dec 26, 2023ISLAMABAD: PMLN Quaid and former prime minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif’s nomination papers for Lahore and Mansehra constituencies would be scrutinized on Tuesday (today). The party has tasked its lawyer wing’s stalwarts with defending the nomination papers. Well-placed sources told The News on Monday that the PTI and PPP lawyers had worked out their strategies to challenge the nomination papers with reference to the Supreme Court’s verdict…
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By Muhammad Riaz Mayar in The News, Dec 26, 2023MARDAN: Tough contests are expected in Mardan district among Awami National Party (ANP), Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-F, Pakistan People’s Party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, and JI, in 3 national and 8 provincial constituencies. The total registered voters in Mardan district are 1,538,078, including 696,382 females and 841,696 males. The election commissioner has designated 1,055 polling stations, comprising 353 male, 319 female, and 383 combined. For the…
report in The Express Tribune, December 20th, 2023.LAHORE: Former Prime Minister and PML-N supreme leader Nawaz Sharif expressed his disappointment over the current state of affairs in Pakistan on Tuesday, attributing it to self-inflicted mistakes rather than external factors. Speaking at a parliamentary board meeting in Lahore, Sharif acknowledged that the nation’s predicament was a result of domestic errors. “It’s not India or the United States; we are in this position due to our own…
Report in Dawn, December 20th, 2023LAHORE: PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif on Tuesday lashed out at judges for legitimising military dictators and taking action against elected prime ministers. “Judges garland the ones (military dictators) who break the Constitution, rather they legitimise their rule. When the parliament is dissolved and the prime minister is sent to jail, they (judges) endorse these actions,” Mr Sharif said while addressing the ticket aspirants from Faisalabad at the party secretariat in…
report in The Express Tribune, December 15th, 2023.LAHORE: In an apparent reference to Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founding chairman Imran Khan, former prime minister and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo Nawaz Sharif on Thursday questioned why Pakistan was punished by imposing [establishment’s] ladla (darling) on them after his removal from power in 2017. “Your enmity was with Nawaz Sharif and you had put him in jail but why did you punish the people? Why the lives…
report in The News, Dec 15, 2023LAHORE: Former prime minister and PMLN Quaid Nawaz Sharif met Mahmood Khan Achakzai, head of PakhtunKhaw Milli Awami Party (PkMAP) here on Thursday. The two leaders met at the central secretariat of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz. PMLN Senior Vice President and Chief Organizer Maryam Nawaz and leaders of Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party also participated in the meeting. Mahmood Khan Achakzai congratulated Nawaz Sharif on acquittal in NAB references. The two…
report in Daily Times, Dec 15, 2023Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz supremo (PML-N) Nawaz Sharif Thursday hoped the people would back his party when elections take place next year after he secured major victories from courts. “I am hopeful that you [the people] will announce your judgments on February 8, [2024] and end the punishments meted out to you,” Nawaz said in a recorded message to the nation, aired live on television channels. Nawaz has time and…
by Mubashir Hassan in The Nation, Dec 15, 2023LAHORE – The PML-N supremo Mian Nawaz Sharif Thursday expressed his optimism that people would back his party in the upcoming general elections to alleviate themselves from the troubles they had endured as a consequence of his political persecution in the last five years. “The people themselves serve as the court, and hopefully, they will pronounce their judgment on February 8”, he said in his maiden televised…
by Zain Ul Abideen Siddiqui in The Express Tribune, December 14th, 2023.KARACHI: Former federal minister Faisal Vawda asserted on Wednesday that former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, despite running alone in an ostensibly empty political landscape post-Imran Khan, would only secure the “fourth position”. Vawda made these remarks during an appearance on the Express News programme “Kal Tak” hosted by Javed Chaudhry. He said that it was Khan who fuelled the May 9 riots, causing losses…
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…
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…