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January 10, 2021
LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Saturday announced not fielding its candidates against the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) in bye-elections in Sindh.
PML-N Central Secretary General Ahsan Iqbal announced here after a meeting of the party’s parliamentary board that the party would participate in the by-elections, along with the component parties of the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM).
PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz chaired the PML-N parliamentary board meeting, which discussed the names of party candidates for the by-elections.
PML-N Punjab President Rana Sanaullah, Pervez Rashid, Burjis Tahir, Capt (retd) Muhammad Safdar, Begum Ishrat Ashraf, Engineer Khurram Dastgir, Murtaza Javed Abbasi and others attended the meeting.
PPP Punjab President Qamar Zaman Kaira. APP/File
SARGODHA: The Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) is determined to dissolve parliament and it has not allowed walkover to the ruling party in the Senate, says PPP President Qamaruz Zaman Kaira.
He told media that it is parliament which can announce the date of Senate election while the constitution entails election through secret ballot.
The PDM, he said, was raising the voice for the oppressed people as the present fascist government had snatched the loaf of bread from the people and selected government provided shelter to sugar mafia, flour mafia and also ruined the institutions.
LAHORE: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has taken exception to Prime Minister Imran Khan’s statement that “there is a lot of anger within the Army over the oral attacks by Nawaz Sharif and his party against the top military leadership”, saying the “conspiracy of the selected” to pitch the national institutions against the opposition will not succeed.
“The national institutions are angry, not with the opposition but with the poor performance of the Imran Khan government. Imran Khan is trying to pass the buck of inept and incompetent government on to the institutions. We have not asked the Army chief to topple the government.
Dar, SBP ex-governor on NAB radar in merger case
Investigators seek NAB chairman permission to arrest ex-finance minister, SBP officials
Finance Minister Ishaq Dar. PHOTO: REUTERS
ISLAMABAD:
The investigators of the country’s prime anti-corruption watchdog have sought permission to arrest former finance minister Ishaq Dar and State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) former governor Ashraf Wathra along with six other officials in case of alleged non-transparent amalgamation of two banks.
On November 3, the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Karachi Office sent warrants of arrests of eight persons to NAB headquarters with a request to give it permission to take them into custody in case of “non-transparent amalgamation of KASB Bank into BankIslami,” showed official documents
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December 20, 2020
LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) Secretary General Ahsan Iqbal has said the institutions are worried about the performance of the government, and not the PDM [Pakistan Democratic Movement].
Addressing a press conference along with Azma Bukhari and Ataullah Tarar at the party s central secretariat in Model Town here on Saturday, he said the opposition had not asked the army chief to overthrow the government.
“We will send the government packing with the power of our planned long march and save the country on February 1, 2021,” he announced.
The PDM leadership would announce the final date for the long march after consultations, Ahsan said adding that the government should learn lessons from the history. He said it was time for everyone to be accountable and now was the time that all others should also learn from the past. He said that all the doors on non-political interference in politics should be closed.