ISLAMABAD: Follies and lack of capacity of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s rivals to maintain pressure and popularity and the performance of his government have resulted in solidifying and strengthening him while he was extremely nervous, panicky and even scared precisely a year ago.
Politics
Dismissed Saturday as Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) organiser for Rawalpindi’s NA-56 constituency, Fiazul Hassan Chohan released a video Sunday addressing party chief Imran Khan, alleging corruption in the party.
PESHAWAR: Senate Chairman Raza Rabbani on Sunday said that democratic institutions were pitted against one another during times of dictatorships. He said the institutions might be at stake if state institutions didn’t recognise the constitutional power of each democratic institution.
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaaf (PTI) yesterday expelled MPA Amjad Khan Afridi from the party for his conduct in the Local Bodies (LB) elections which led to the defeat of PTI candidates.
KARACHI: Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, chairman of Pakistan People’s Party, has said that not only Sindh, but the whole country is a stronghold of the PPP.
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf has dissolved the organising committee in Balochistan and appointed Sardar Yar Mohammad Rind as the provincial organiser in Balochistan.
CHARSADDA: Awami National Party president Asfandyar Wali Khan has said that the people of Sindh and Punjab have rejected Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf in the local government elections and expressed their no-confidence in its hollow slogans of creating ‘Naya Pakistan’.
LAHORE: Newly-elected Member National Assembly from Okara Riaz-ul-Haq met Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, here Thursday and announced joining Pakistan Muslim League-N unconditionally.
ISLAMABAD: Following the withdrawal of resignations from the Senate, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) Thursday submitted an application for withdrawal of their resignations in the office of acting Speaker National Assembly Murtaza Javed Abbasi.
BADIN: The general secretary of the Sindh chapter of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl, Maulana Rashid Soomro, on Wednesday pledged support for estranged Pakistan Peoples Party leader Dr Zulfikar Ali Mirza who planned to stage a sit-in on Thursday to protest killing of Pakistan Muslim League-Functional activists and rigging in the first phase of local government election.
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday said the nation’s future lies in a democratic and liberal Pakistan where the private sector thrives and no one is left behind.
ISLAMABAD: Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Syed Khursheed Shah on Wednesday said politicians were public property and there was nothing personal about the politicians.
LAHORE: The resignation of PTI’s Lahore chapter chief Shafqat Mahmood has been accepted and Punjab organizer Chaudhry Sarwar has been given additional charge of the Lahore affairs, says a notification issued by central organizer general Jehangir Tareen.
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) will be further gloomed and doomed beyond retrieval and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) will become uncontrollable if the results of Saturday’s first phase of local bodies’ elections were repeated in the second stage of the exercise after two weeks, especially in Punjab.
LALAMUSA: The PML-Q said that, before the local bodies elections, it had complained to the Election Commission of Pakistan that the police and district administrations were engaged in pre-poll rigging but the ECP turned a deaf ear to our hue and cry.
