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ISLAMABAD - The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leaders claim that the party is playing the role of a real opposition and are not hand-in-glove with the PPP government. Its actions speak otherwise. Case in point is the party's recently-aborted plan of releasing white paper on the government's three-year performance.
The PML-N has not only withheld a caustic white paper on the government's wrongdoings and failures but has also backtracked from its public stances to save the

LAHORE - The PML-N on Thursday warned of reopening the East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) dismemberment case in response to the PPP's move of reopening the Zulfikar Ali Bhutto's case.
PML-N leaders said this while addressing a public meeting organised by the party's Lahore Cantt chapter to protest against US drone attacks, Raymond Davis' release and a US pastor's desecration of the holy Quran. Those who addressed the meeting included Khawaja Saad Rafiq, Pervaiz Rashid, Mian Marghob

LAHORE - Pakistan People's party (PPP) and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leaders hailing from Wazirabad joined Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) in a meeting with PML-Q leader Chaudhary Pervaiz Elahi on Tuesday.
Waqas Afzal Chattah, former ticket holder of PPP from PP-103, PML-N leader Ali Asghar Cheema, union council leaders Shahbaz Cheema, Chaudhary Muhammad Ashraf, Akhtar Hunjra, Chaudhary Saif, Syed Zaigham and others, while reposing full confidence in the

ISLAMABAD/LAHORE - The federal government engaged the Young Doctors Association (YDA) on Tuesday, agreeing to accept their demands in a political move to exploit the situation in Punjab where doctors and provincial authorities have been at loggerheads for over a month now.
The strike announced by the Punjab chapter of the YDA swelled in ranks as senior doctors from Punjab and other provinces also expressed solidarity with them, while the young doctors ended their strike in

LAHORE - The PML-N and PPP are fueling their political rivalry on doctors' strike, a trauma for patients and ordeal for medical practitioners. Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah has announced the launching of an FIR against Raja Riaz for instigating the doctors on strike.
Rana Sanaullah said that Raja Riaz should convince the doctors to perform their duties rather than inciting them to violation of law and order in the province. He said that Raja Riaz was serving his vested

ISLAMABAD - The ruling PPP and the PML-N are mulling a proposal to move a joint legislation to trim the term of national and provincial assemblies from five years to four years - a situation that suites both the parties ruling in the centre and the Punjab.
A source confided to Pakistan Today on Saturday that the ruling PPP wanted to secure its majority in the Upper House in the upcoming Senate elections. The source said once the PPP and PML-N had a thorough discussion on the

ISLAMABAD - The National Assembly's Standing Committee on Law and Justice is likely to meet during the upcoming session of the Lower House to thrash out differences between the PPP and the PML-N on a new accountability bill particularly on the qualification of the chairman of the accountability commission. The PPP and the PML-N are struggling since April 2009 to develop consensus on the proposed accountability commission and the meetings between the PML-N four member committee and the

LAHORE - The PML-N is not part of Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani's crew going to India to watch the Cricket World Cup semi final to be played between India and Pakistan in Mohali today (Wednesday).
PML-N ministers declined to confirm whether the prime minister invited them to come with him as high-profile spectators on the invitation of the Indian government. Sources in the PML-N told Pakistan Today on Tuesday that senior party leader Abdul Qadir Baloch would go to Mohali but

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Information Secretary Ahsan Iqbal on Monday asked the government to link new foreign loans with approval of the parliament. In a statement, he said Pakistan is already over burdened and added that no new loan should be taken without approval of the Parliament. He said PML-N would move a motion in the Parliament for checking government's unchecked borrowing which has put the country in a debt trap.
It is to mention here that the

LONDON - Serious differences have emerged in the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) over the establishment of a separate chapter of AJK PML-N in the UK. A lobby in the party headed by President UK Zubair Gul is try their best to convince the party top leadership to reject the proposal of AJK PML-N leaders for their own branch in Britain, a party source informed Pakistan Today. A PML source said that Zubair Gul wanted a complete hegemony over the party affairs and was not willing to

ISLAMABAD - The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has slammed the government's three-year performance in its white paper, to be released within the next few days.
The white paper, which is being given final touches and is likely to be issued in the coming week, says the Pakistan People's Party (PPP)-led coalition government was toeing former president Pervez Musharraf's marks, Pakistan Today has learnt reliably.
It said true democracy was non-prevalent in the country

ISLAMABAD - The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) on Sunday said that Imran Khan, who heads the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaaf (PTI), must reply to 13 questions on the issue of Raymond Davis; otherwise, his allegations would tantamount to a political point-scoring game.
The main questions are as under:
1- Why Imran Khan kept mum till February 6 on the killing of two people which had taken place on January 27?
2- Why PTI did not make any sincere effort for providing any

ISLAMABAD - Two successive attempts made by the ruling PPP on Saturday failed to woo the PML-N leader to adopt a soft stance during President Asif Ali Zardari's address to the joint session of parliament due on Tuesday.
Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani telephoned Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Nisar Ali Khan, requesting him not to boycott President Zardari's address. A source told Pakistan Today that following the phone call, a PPP delegation, led by Minister

ISLAMABAD - The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz on Saturday submitted an adjournment motion in the National Assembly calling for a debate on the constitutional role of the army, the intelligence agencies, the judiciary, the parliament and the political parties.
The motion, submitted by PML-N lawmakers Birjees Tahir and Tahira Aurangzeb, stated that the release of CIA contractor Raymond Davis had raised certain questions about the role of different institutions and that the public

ISLAMABAD - Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said on Thursday some political parties were blaming the Punjab government for Raymond Davis' release on behest of the establishment. In a statement issued from his office, Nisar said the incumbent rulers were responsible for Davis' release.
"The release of Davis will be remembered as a national tragedy in Pakistan's history.... The rulers, to appease their foreign masters, brokered this deal in

KARACHI - President Asif Ali Zardari has said that the Pakistan People's Party will play the role of a responsible opposition in Punjab and will not do anything to destabilise the provincial government or weaken democracy in any way.
Presidential spokesman Farhatullah Babar said that President Zardari said this during a telephonic address from the Bilawal House to PPP Punjab MPs who had gathered at the Governor's House Lahore on Wednesday. He said the president also advised the

LAHORE - Opposition Leader in the Punjab Assembly Raja Riaz Wednesday termed any attempt to pave the way for a clash between the institutions as dangerous, saying the PML-N-led government in Punjab must realise that this mindset would always cause serious loss to the country.
He said the PML-N leadership whenever in power made efforts to create a conflict between the national institutions without understanding the consequences. Soon after the start of the Punjab Assembly's