PML(N): a family affair

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Asif Butt
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Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif was elected President of Punjab PML(N) in the internal election of the party, which were nothing but a farce. The mainstreams political parties have become personalised institutions and have been converted into family dynasties, where the mantle is passed from one generation to the next. It is now a bitter truth that Nawaz Sharif will not allow anyone outside the family to share power even within the PML(N). Unfortunately, the people of Pakistan have bad memory. However the thoughtful Pakistanis can never forget the past performance of Nawaz Sharif as a prime minister.

1. In 1990 “kashkol torr do” campaign was launched when thousands of ordinary Pakistani responded and sent personal savings to support this initiative, nobody knows what happened to that money but it certainly did not help in ending our dependency.

2. In 1997, he wanted to arrest the Chief Justice of Pakistan merely because he was not toeing the line and Nawaz Sharif would have done so had sense not being hammered to him. He was the PM who ordered the physical assault upon the Supreme Court of Pakistan, now Mian sahib has become a champion of independent judiciary.

3. In 1998, Nawaz Sharif ordered freezing of foreign accounts of local and expatriates after the nuclear test in May. Violating all international and local commitment, that one act by Nawaz Sharif destroyed all goodwill earned by the nuclear test.

4. In 1999 Nawaz Sharif acted in the most undemocratic way by muzzling the media and tried to impose Sharia laws and proclaim himself the Amir-ul-Momineen by attempting to run through with the 15th constitutional amendment. Who else is responsible for all the sins and wrong committed by General Musharraf whom he plucked out from Mangla and made Chief of the Army Staff? Then the very fact that he indulged in a questionable act of not allowing a Chief of Army Staff’s (Musharraf) plane to land although it was legal for him to sack the Army Chief. Nawaz Sharif was unsure of his ability to do so, that’s why he engaged in an extralegal measure to implement his desire which provided the justification for the army establishment to remove his heavily mandated government through a coup.

S T HUSSAIN

Lahore

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14 COMMENTS

  6. Very well written. I wish the people would remember these things when voting. This coward has no business running for any leadership role because he has no lerdership abilities. nawaz clan is a mafia.

  7. Political parties in Pakistan are public limited companies with ownership of single family. PMLN is one of those. They will never let any change in this country. Politicians in parties are employees which are hired for different tasks. They are paid and benefited. Public must resist to this system.

  9. Nawaz Sharif was within his constitutional right to sack Musharraf who was plotting to overthrow him.

  10. So writing such useless post can change perception about PML N?? LOL
    PML N is the only party which truly represent Pakistani people and have roots in public. I will always vote for PML N.
    All the LOTAS and FOREIGN FUNDED PARTIES is turned against PML N. But with the grace of ALLAH no one can stop PML N.

  11. Pml N is the biggest party of Pakistan. May be, some decisions of past are bad but Over all good. with the grace of ALLAH no one can stop PML N.

  12. Nawaz needs to explain where the £1bn that is invested in England came from. Maybe as a good will gesture bring back the money to Pakistan and distriubute it amongst the poor. He keeps telling us how much he loves the poor- well this could be a chance to show it.

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