Tag: Pmln

Since it isn’t possible not to compare the two rallies in Lahore (the one yesterday and the one on Sunday) comparisons of the specific...

Lahore is gearing up for two big rallies end of this month. Though both are “anti-government” conventions, it is each other that they are...

Everybody’s been talking of the Imran Khan spanner thrown into the works of Punjabi politics. It is being surmised that since his support base...

Imagine Altaf Hussain proclaiming that the real reason behind the threat to dissolve the provincial assembly is the growing popularity of his party in...

The political cauldron is on the boil again, some may say prematurely, for there is still some time to go between now and the...

Arif Nizami has explained quite well the PML(N)’s failure in all directions and its loss of grip on country's politics. His latest article "Sharif's...

ISLAMABAD - Rumpus marred the National Assembly proceedings on Wednesday as the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) parliamentarians locked horns, chanted slogans and accused each other of striking deals for political gains, while the PML-Q reprimanded both for ignoring the agenda of the House and washing their dirty linen at taxpayers' expense.
Visibly perturbed over the developments vis-a-vis the formation of a national government that

LAHORE - Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) is likely to formally invite Mutahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) to join its two-day protest against drone attacks on the Pak-Afghan Highway. The PTI says the demonstration scheduled to be held on April 23-24 aims at blocking the NATO supplies from Peshawar.
The PTI sources confided to the Pakistan Today here on Monday that party had finalised the arrangements in this regard. They added that PTI has formed

ISLAMABAD - The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has launched an internal inquiry against one of its National Assembly members Anjum Aqeel Khan for allegations of corruption in the real estate business in the capital.
"Though Anjum Aqeel Khan has settled the National Police Foundation (NPF) scam by paying back Rs 5.8 billion in cash or kind following negotiations with the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), the party is conducting a thorough inquiry into the matter to learn

LAHORE - Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Lawyers' Wing meeting on Saturday was marred by protests by lawyers from Lahore at the Lahore High Court (LHC) Bar Room. PML-N Member of the National Assembly (MNA) Naseer Bhutta was chairing the meeting when a group of lawyers led by Sirajul Islam stood up and came near the roster and started chanting slogans whenever any speaker came to deliver his speech.
The lawyers said that the meeting was being held illegally, as no central

LAHORE - Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz has strongly rejected truce offered by former President and chief of army staff general Pervaiz Musharraf, saying it is out of question and even absurd.
PML-N Chief Mian Muhamamd Nawaz Sharif and former President Musharraf developed animosity after latter sent Nawaz-led government packing in October 12, 1999. Both always exchanged salvo and have never sat down to reconcile. This is the first time that former general Musharraf offered an

LAHORE - The Pakistan Muslim League-N offices that have encroached upon the right of way have complete immunity against the anti-encroachment campaign despite whopping sloganeering that the drive will not succumb to political influence.
One of the eye-opening examples could be seen at Old Thana Road, Itawar Bazaar and Last Bus Stop, New Sunday Bazaar Green Town in the jurisdiction of Nishtar Town. There are two PML-N offices on these locations; one belonging to MNA Naseer Bhutta

LAHORE - The Punjab Assembly swiftly dissolved into chaos on Thursday after the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) attempted to present a resolution on the Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (ZAB) case.
Law Minister Rana Sanaullah said that the PPP should not raise such issues as the people that believed the late Bhutto's sentence was "judicial murder" also believed that the PPP always came to power in the name of ZAB and former premier Benazir Bhutto, and was now trying to secure another term the

ISLAMABAD - The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) on Thursday pushed the Pakistan People's Party and its allies into a catch-22 situation when it asked the ruling alliance to respond to the slogans against continued US drone attacks in the Tribal Areas, with an "oblivious" Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani keeping himself busy in signing files put up by parliamentarians.
During NA proceedings on Thursday, PML-N's Khwaja Saad Rafique asked the ruling alliance to joining the

FAISAL ABAD - The party which has been involved in the assassination of hundreds of innocent people in Karachi is now making tall claims and hollow promises to protect the people of the Punjab, said Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) central executive committee member and Public Accounts Committee (PAC) former chairman Hamza Shahbaz on Tuesday. Commenting on the political campaign of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) in the Punjab, he said: "It is ironical that those who openly use

LAHORE - PML-N senior leader Khawaja Saad Rafiq has called MQM's public rally "a flop show," saying Altaf Hussian's "London-brand" revolution took its last breath at football ground of Gaddafi Stadium forever. It was not a Jalsa (public meeting), rather a Jalsi that pricked the imaginary publicity bubble that the MQM fantasised, he added.
Saad said the public meeting was a joint show of the MQM and PML-Q, but failed to create any ripple. He said the public meeting could not make