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SIALKOT - Hundreds of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) workers raged against the attitude of PML-N central leader and MNA Kahwaja Muhammad Asif towards the party workers, saying he had divided the PML-N in Sialkot into several groups for his personal political gains. During a convention of PML-N workers held at Union Council Shahabpura in which more than 600 party workers participated, the workers alleged MNA Khawaja Muhammad Asif was getting fictitious cases registered against

QUETTA - Provincial ministers from the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) walked out on the Balochistan Assembly (BA) session to protest against the objectionable remarks against PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif by a Pakistan People's Party (PPP)'s parliamentary leader.
The BA session began here on Tuesday under the chairmanship of Speaker Muhammad Aslam Bhootani. On a point of order, PPP parliamentary leader Mir Sadiq Umrani strongly criticised PML-N minister Sardar Sanaullah Zehri

QUETTA - Referring to the remarks of PPP MPA Ali Madad Jattak during the Balochistan Assembly's session that the PML-N ministers should be sacked from the PPP-led cabinet, Raisani Tuesday said Jattak spoke in his personal capacity and had nothing to do with his coalition government.
He said that he would not let the political situation of Punjab to affect the politics in Balochistan. Talking to journalists after Balochistan Assembly's session, the chief minister said several

LAHORE - The PML-N has publicised a fact sheet on the issue of the alleged stay order against Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Saturday. The fact sheet says there is absolutely no stay order whatsoever which has been passed in this case (or, for that matter, in any other case), on the strength of which Shahbaz Sharif continued to hold the office of Punjab Chief Minister Punjab.
The facts regarding the litigation pertaining to the raising of challenge to (i) the very

LAHORE - Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Firdous Ashiq Awan said on Friday that the real test of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML N) leadership lay ahead as to how it handled a strong and vocal opposition in Punjab.
"It will be interesting to see how the PML-N's 20-20 side matches against the experienced test side of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP)," said the minister, using cricket analogy in a lighter tone during her visit to the offices of Pakistan

ISLAMABAD - Rejecting the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N)'s proposal of taking the army and judiciary on board to resolve national issues, Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain said on Thursday that it was the duty of people's representatives and not of the judiciary and the army to devise national agenda. "It is the responsibility of the politicians who are people's representatives to find ways to steer the country out of persistent crises and

ISLAMABAD - It seems that the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has shifted its focus from the 10-point reforms agenda and put it on the backburner as it has now proposed a national conference surprisingly with the judiciary and the army also to be invited as major stakeholders. Being the third proposal in sequence, after the Charter of Pakistan and the 10-point reforms agenda, the national conference is being seen as an attempt to buy time just like President Asif Ali Zardari's

ISLAMABAD - Explaining the intentions behind the statement of Punjab chief minister Shahbaz Sharif regarding national conference, PML-N spokesman Ahsan Iqbal on Wednesday said the PML-N did not invite the military to control the country and neither did it try to sabotage democracy. Addressing a news conference at the PML-N secretariat, Ahsan said the PML-N never tried to grab power through unconstitutional means like NRO, as it believed in public power.
"We believe in democracy

COMMENT - It was only a week ago that the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) announced its split with the Pakistan People's Party (PPP), saying enough was enough, they could not pull together with the PPP any longer. Hence came the famous goodbye at a press conference by PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif, probably for all time to come. But then came a stunning U-turn the other day when the Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif - as if forgetting the blow his party had inflicted upon the PPP

LAHORE - Provincial Food Minister Chaudhry Abdul Ghafoor on Sunday accused opposition leader Raja Riaz of being the voice of Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi. In a press release, Ghafoor asked Riaz to visit his native city Faisalabad and try to appease people's anger against the federal government instead of raising a hue and cry in Lahore. He said, "One who has bunged Punjab's gas and electricity cannot hoodwink the people through his tactics."
He said it was known to the nation that the

ISLAMABAD - The PML-N government in Punjab is having trouble in reshaping the provincial cabinet after ousting PPP ministers as every other MPA from the Unification Bloc is aspiring to get the ministerial berth.
The allegations of serious malpractice on Dr Tahir Ali Javed, reported by several private TV channels on Tuesday night, have also landed the PML-N in a fix as to whether to induct Javed in the provincial cabinet or not. A source in the PML-N told Pakistan Today that

LAHORE - Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) criticised the statement of a veteran politician predicting army rule for 30 years and asked the army leadership to snub such voices. PML-N senior leader Ahsan Iqbal said, "Those who predict and support military rule in Pakistan are trying to prove that Pakistan is a failed concept because military rule is an illegitimate exception and proves that a particular country is unable to run its affairs according to law and constitution. It also

ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani slammed the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leadership once again on Tuesday for accepting turncoats and said it was preferable for the Pakistan People's Party to sit in the opposition rather than indulge in politics that went against the people's trust and were based on personal interest.
Gilani told National Assembly members Riaz Hussain Pirzada and Jamshed Khan Dasti at his chambers that the government had taken every possible in the

KARACHI - The ruling Pakistan People's Party (PPP) succeeded in getting a unanimous resolution against the Pakistan Muslim League-N adopted in the Sindh Assembly on Tuesday after convincing coalition partners Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) of the need for such a resolution.
This unity was short-lived, however, as Muttahida staged a token walkout against the fresh increase in petroleum prices made by PPP's government in the Centre soon after the PML-N resolution was passed. Three

ISLAMABAD - Despite parting ways with the PML-N in Punjab, the government has decided to continue pursuing the 10-point agenda independently and has asked Finance Minister Hafeez Shaikh to brief the cabinet on the issue, a source told Pakistan Today on Tuesday. The PPP could not ignore the 10-point agenda since it constituted part of its own manifesto, so the leadership of the party had decided to continue pursuing the agenda with or without the PML-N's support.
Issues such as

KARACHI - The PML-N wants to indulge in the politics of the 90s, but the PPP will not follow suit, President Asif Ali Zardari said on Monday. "The PPP is a democratic party and will face all such tactics politically," Zardari told Punjab Governor Latif Khosa and Interior Minister Rehman Malik in a meeting at the Bilawal House. According to sources in the PPP, various other issues such as the progress of development projects, rebuilding of the flood-damaged infrastructure and the

LAHORE - As the stage is set to dissolve the Punjab cabinet and push the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) out of the provincial government, influential lobbies amongst Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and the unification bloc have set their sights on lucrative ministries and parliamentary secretary positions, PML-N sources told Pakistan Today on Sunday.
A PML-N leader, who wished to remain unnamed, said preparations to form the new cabinet had begun and various leaders in the