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LAHORE: The Punjab government, to protect the interests of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz's (PML-N) local party leaders, has seriously compromised the merits of the under-construction Bhogiwal Road located in NA-123 constituency - considered as a bastion of the PML-N - by rejecting road expansion plans despite National Engineering Services Pakistan's (NESPAK) recommendations.
A senior official of the Lahore Development Authority (LDA) told Pakistan Today that NESPAK's designs to

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League's candidate for by-polls in NA-172, Owais Leghari, on Sunday accused the PML-N of committing pre-polls rigging and using the Punjab government machinery in the by-election.
Addressing a press conference at the PML House, Owais Legahri, son of Farooq Leghari who is contesting polls on the seat that fell vacant due to his father's death said the Punjab government had got the by-election postponed due to fear of PML-N candidate Hafiz Abdul Karim's

FAISALABAD: Former City District nazim Rana Zahid Tauseef has criticised both the major political parties, the Pakistan People's Party and the Pakistan Muslim League-N, and predicted that the masses will vote them out of power in the next general elections.
"There is a widespread anger among the people against these parties and they are fed up with them," the PML-Q leader and ex-MNA said. "There is a gross dissatisfaction prevailing in the community because they are pursuing a

LAHORE: State Minister for Communications and Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Punjab President Imtiaz Safdar Warraich on Tuesday accused the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) of putting Punjab on sale and distributing public-sector educational institutions amongst party leaders and loyalists.
He made these remarks in a press conference at the Lahore Press Club along with PPP Punjab Secretary General Samiullah Khan, Information Secretary Dr Fakharuddin Chaudhry, Finance

LAHORE: Punjab ministers Raja Riaz and Ashraf Sohna from the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) said on Monday during the 21st session of the Punjab Assembly that the Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has always created hurdles in serving the masses.
It was a routine start of proceeding but just before the question hour session PPP legislator Hassan Murtaza drew the attention of the house over the issue of the exploitation of sugarcane growers by the sugar mill owners. e said that the mill

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) on Monday decided to lobby with political parties, including the PML-Q, MQM and PPP-Sherpao, to foil the passage of the reformed general sales tax bill by the National Assembly.
The central organising committee of the PML-N which met with Nawaz Sharif in the chair also decided to complete intra-party elections from local to central level before January 15, 2011.
Addressing the central organising committee members, Nawaz

LAHORE: The "fallout of WikiLeaks' disclosures bringing notoriety to army and politicians including Nawaz Sharif", and future strategy on the reformed GST bill being top agenda items, the PML-N leadership has summoned a crucial party meeting on December 6 in Islamabad.
Sources told Pakistan Today that the meeting intended to fine-tune the media campaign and lobbying for damage control after WikiLeaks revealed that Nawaz had assured US diplomats of his true friendship and proved

ISLAMABAD: PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif and senior leader Nisar Ali Khan repeatedly told former US ambassador Anne Patterson that the party was pro-American.
In a cable released by WikiLeaks that sent on February 1, 2008, Patterson writes, "Nawaz recounted his decision to override his chief of army staff and deploy Pakistani troops to Saudi Arabia in support of the US coalition in the first Gulf War."
Meanwhile, Nisar noted that the PPP and its leaders were organising street

LAHORE: Shopkeepers and retailers have alleged Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) workers are distributing sugar to favourites and ignoring the majority of shops, Pakistan Today has learnt on Sunday.
The availability of sugar also disturbed due to closure of Akbari Mandi and no supplies during Eid days. It is not for the first time that PML-N is using commodities for bagging votes, as similar tactics were adopted in sasta ata (cheap flour) distribution at tandoors and to shops,

LAHORE: The Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz group (PML-N) has issued a four-page dossier to disprove Nawaz Sharif's 10 year exile agreement and a claimed ban on his political activities.
Nawaz Sharif has not been banned from politics and those claiming this were only issuing empty statements, the dossier issued on Saturday, said, adding that the apex court had already handed down its judgment and the exile agreement negated Sharif's basic human rights and hence held no legal

ISLAMABAD: Law Minister Babar Awan on Saturday said that the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz changed it stance on the General Sales Tax (GST) in public.
Talking to media at the Supreme Court building, he said the PML-N had a different stance on GST during the meeting of Council of Common Interests. Some politicians paid Rs 5,000 (income) tax despite earning millions, he added.
The minister said the appointment of the Supreme Court judges would be transparent and the criticism

LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz Secretary Information MNA Ahsan Iqbal has said that Reformed General Sales Tax (GST) will be a disaster for the national economy.
He told Pakistan Today on Friday that GST imposition would entail another wave of price hike and the PML-N would never allowed the enforcement of this tax. He said the government was trying to achieve a revenue boost by imposing a repressive tax but it was mistaken because such an objective could not be achieved in

LAHORE: Instead of threatening another long march, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) should tell public what it had done and achieved to eradicate inflation and unemployment in the province of Punjab, PML-Quaid's central leader Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi said while addressing an Okara workers' meeting in Lahore on Sunday.
Nawaz Sharif needed to reform his younger brother before telling others what to do, he said, adding that the decisions of the incumbent government had broken the

ISLAMABAD: After failure to meet three deadlines set earlier for the party's reorganisation, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has decided that intra-party elections from the unit to the central level should be completed by January 15, 2011.
In a PML-N central organising committee meeting, it also decided that intra-party elections at the local as well as provincial and central levels should be completed before January 15 next year. PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif had dissolved

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Muslim League-N and the Pakistan Muslim League-Q on Thursday reached a consensus over nominations for parliamentary committee for the appointment of judges to superior courts.
In Senate, Leader of Opposition Wasim Sajjad replaced his name with PML-N's Senator Ishaq Dar, while Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain will still be the nominee of his party. In National Assembly, Opposition Leader Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan nominated Sardar Mehtab Abbasi from the PML-N and

LAHORE: Political scenario has turned more volatile during the last two weeks as All Pakistan Muslim League, founded by former president Pervez Musharraf, intends to issue 40-page charge-sheet against PML-N next week, spotlighting Nawaz Sharif's 10-year exile agreement, details of his assets in London and alleged misdemeanors
Politicians seem exited to see the charge sheet against PML-N in retaliation to the one issued by PML-N against Musharraf on October 11, 2010. Experts term

ISLAMABAD: PML-N Senator Pervez Rashid on Friday rejected the formation of a united Muslim league, saying all leaders who had formed the alliance lacked principle.
"Our party has some principles and the men who announced the Muttahida Muslim League at Kingri House follow no democratic principle in their politics," he said, adding that all these leaguers had accepted the October 12 unconstitutional step of the former military dictator.
He said the leaders who were trying to