Tag: Nawaz Sharif
Elections roundup: Plans in motion
As inauspicious as the day may be, Mian Nawaz has announced he will be landing in Pakistan on Friday the thirteenth.
The former prime minister...
The Sharif verdict
And the political fallout
The dice heavily loaded against them, Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam Nawaz’s conviction in the Avenfield properties case by a...
The Pakistani Thanksgiving Day
To be credible, accountability has now to be across the board
“Why are you cartwheeling like a monkey, Maverick? What’s happened to you?” I asked...
After the verdict
Will an unforgiving Punjab abort the PML-N?
The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) in a verdict against Nawaz Sharif, has handed down a prison sentence of...
Nawaz Sharif in the belly of a whale
Need to return home, also to do soul searching
Issuing appeals to the PML-N workers from London to come out in his support won’t help...
Avenfield verdict made public without proofreading
ISLAMABAD: The Avenfield verdict that was announced on Friday by the accountability court sent the nation into a frenzy, however, according to a local media...
Verdict against Nawaz ‘murdered’ justice, says Shehbaz
NAROWAL: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz chief Shehbaz Sharif on Saturday termed the Avenfield verdict against former prime minister Nawaz Sharif ‘murder of justice’.
An accountability court...
Election roundup: The lion’s last roar?
The enemy of my enemy. . .
The dust is beginning to settle, well, as much as it can settle with the Sharifs still...
Elections roundup: Awam ki Adalat is in session
There was always going to be a conviction. That was something few were doubting. What the bookmakers were interested in was what the sentence...
Caretakers to initiate confiscation of Avenfield apartments
--Barrister Farogh Nasim highlights on legal options left with Sharifs
--Justice Wajih says Sharifs can’t file for protective bail, their only option is to file...
PTI celebrates verdict against Sharifs
LAHORE: After the eagerly anticipated decision of Avenfield reference was announced by National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Friday, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) workers and its leadership celebrated...
Nawaz, Maryam can move IHC, SC against conviction, lawyers say
--Advocate Tarrar says repeated delays in announcement have made verdict suspicious
ISLAMABAD: The legal fraternity in the country hinted that the accountability court decision in Avenfield...
Imran ecstatic, Zardari and others cautious over Nawaz’s conviction
--PTI, AML term conviction of deposed premier as 'historic decision'
--Zardari says verdict will help PML-N politically, while Khursheed Shah finds timing wrong
--ANP, JI for...
Handful of PML-N workers protest NAB court’s decision on Mall
LAHORE: Some 15 workers of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) on Friday gathered at Lahore’s Charing Cross to protest the decision of an accountability court, which...
Analysts say Nawaz should return if he wants to stay in...
KARACHI: The ousted prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, and his daughter Maryam Nawaz had requested the court to delay the verdict announcement in the Avenfield...
Nawaz Sharif sentenced to 10 years, Maryam to 7 years in...
Anti-graft judge finds Nawaz Sharif guilty of amassing illegal assets, sentences deposed PM to 10 years rigorous imprisonment, fines him 8m pounds, orders seizure...
Elections roundup: Out with it already!
The ifs and the buts finally made an entry as the good grace that had been observed in the wake of Begum Kulsoom Nawaz’s...