By Ansar Abbasi in The News, Nov 4, 2023ISLAMABAD: Time is running out for Nawaz Sharif and Imran Khan to get their convictions reversed in order to take part in the upcoming general elections. As the election date – Feb 8, 2023 – has been announced, these top leaders have nearly one month period to get chit from courts to become eligible for taking part in the elections. The Election Commission of Pakistan has to…
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by Rizwan Shehzad in The Express Tribune, Oct 31st, 2023.ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo Nawaz Sharif started on Monday formally calling the shots as he summoned a high-level meeting of the party to deliberate on the ongoing political situation, upcoming general elections and resumption of his political activities after returning to Pakistan. Party officials revealed that the three-time former premier will hold a PML-N meeting on October 31 (today) in Pakistan after a gap…
by Amjad Mahmood in Dawn, October 23rd, 2023LAHORE: In a bid to bring the political temperature down and focus on securing relief for Nawaz Sharif in graft cases, the PML-N has decided to re-establish “close coordination” with its allies in the former coalition government. This decision was made during a meeting at Jati Umra on Sunday, also attended by legal experts in addition to the Sharif family members. Sources told Dawn that Nawaz Sharif would…
by Hannah Ellis-Petersen and Shah Meer Baloch in The Guardian, Oct 27, 2023The scenes were eerily similar: Nawaz Sharif, standing in front of tens of thousands of supporters in his home town of Lahore, making a pitch to become Pakistan’s leader. But this was not 1990, nor 1997 nor 2013 – the three previous occasions that Sharif was elected prime minister. Instead, it was an event held over the weekend to mark his return from…
by Rizwan Shehzad in The Express Tribune, Oct 23, 2023ISLAMABAD: n Tuesday, two former prime ministers, Nawaz Sharif and Imran Khan, will be in Islamabad, using Constitution Avenue as they separately appear before the Islamabad High Court (IHC) and the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) as accused individuals. Constitution Avenue, situated in the capital’s Red Zone, is adorned with various key buildings, including Parliament, the Prime Minister’s House, the Supreme Court, the Foreign Office, the…
Report in Business Recorder, Oct 21, 2023LAHORE: All is set for the return of PML-N supremo to the country and a big power show of the party at Minar-e-Pakistan on Saturday (today). Nawaz Sharif, who is in Dubai, will travel to Pakistan in a charter plane on Saturday. He would reach Lahore Fort through a helicopter to attend the PML-N public meeting at Minar-e-Pakistan. The PML-N supremo is returning to the country after ending his…
by Zulqernain Tahir in Dawn, October 21st, 2023• ‘N’ supremo set to return today by chartered plane• Will land in Islamabad to ‘make bail’, then head to Lahore• Scheduled to address at Minar-i-Pakistan this evening• Party tasks ticket aspirants with ‘bringing crowds’ LAHORE: PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif is all set to arrive in Pakistan today (Saturday) after a four-year self-imposed exile in the UK, and his party is rallying its base, urging supporters to converge…
By Zebunnisa Burki in The News, Oct 21, 2023KARACHI: Political commentators feel that the fragile economic situation; Nawaz Sharif’s ‘narrative’; how he deals with Imran Khan; and the Punjab voter’s alleged proclivity for voting for establishment parties are the immediate challenges that await Nawaz as he returns home today. For some analysts, though, Nawaz Sharif’s politics are well past their sell-by date already. The News talked to political commentators on what challenges Nawaz faces as…
By Muhammad Saleh Zaafir in The News, October 18, 2023ISLAMABAD: Former prime minister and Pakistan Muslim League (PMLN) Quaid Nawaz Sharif will approach the Islamabad High Court (IHC) today (Wednesday) through his counsel for procuring protective bail, undertaking to contest cases pending in the learned court/s subsequently. A PMLN legal team has been constituted under former law and justice minister Senator Azam Nazir Tarar that also includes Amjad Pervez, Advocate. The team has tweaked the…
By Asim Yasin in The News, Oct 17, 2023ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan People’s Party has raised apprehensions about the prospect of “special relief” to PMLN leader and former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on his return on October 21. Nawaz Sharif was convicted by courts of law and he will have to face the law on his return as he went abroad with the consent of the Imran Khan government and also through a judiciary decision, PPP…