Daily Times
May 16, 2021
Former Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Chaudhry Nisar is likely to take oath as a member of the Punjab Assembly on Tuesday. According to a media report, Nisar is likely to take oath as member of provincial assembly (MPA) on the May 18 session of the Punjab Assembly.
It may be recalled that the Cabinet Committee on Legislation had passed an amendment to the Election Act 2017, according to which a seat will become vacant if the elected representative does not take oath within 60 days. Chaudhry Nisar, who contested as an independent candidate in the general elections from NA-59 and NA-63, lost to Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI). According to election results, Nisar lost to PTI’s Ghulam Sarwar Khan who got 89,055 votes in NA-59 while former interior minister Ch Nisar Ali Khan got 66,369 votes. He lost to PTI’s Ghulam Sarwar Khan in NA-63 as well. Ghulam Sarwar won with 64,301 votes while Ch Nisar stood second with 48,497 votes. PMLN’s Sardar M
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Fear and Loathing in Bangladesh
Fear and Loathing in Bangladesh
Pakistan was not wrong on the Molla execution.
[dropcap]C[/dropcap]haudhry Nisar Ali Khan, Pakistan’s interior minister, controversially denounced Bangladesh’s execution of 65-year-old Abdul Quader Molla, a leader of that country’s Jamaat-e-Islami party. From someone whose government wants to see 70-year-old Pervez Musharraf, this country’s former president and Army chief, hanged, this lecture on reconciliation was rich.
Given that Molla was convicted for crimes allegedly committed during the 1971 civil war that saw East Pakistan become Bangladesh, Khan, and the National Assembly, should have kept their own counsel. Instead, they reified suspicions within Bangladesh that Pakistan is continuing to meddle in the affairs of its former half. Typically, not only did Pakistan’s self-flagellating and self-deemed liberals excoriate Khan and the alleged past and present excesses of the Pakistan Army, they actually
Democratic falls and undemocratic betrayals
National
April 19, 2021
Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and Pakistan Muslim League (PML-Nawaz) having a reputation of matured political entities are yet to come out from their past misgivings despite signatories of 2006 ‘Charter of Democracy’ signed by former prime minister late Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif, which lay down some basic principles for strong democratic order, which unfortunately the parties vigorously violated time and again, making CoD more of a myth than reality.
It would have been better if the two parties while ending their seven-month ‘marriage of inconvenience,’ tore up the CoD.
Instead, PPP Co-Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari tore apart the ‘show-notice’ issued to his party by the opposition alliance, Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM). In reaction, PML (N) leader and former prime Mmnister Shahid Khakan Abbasi said ‘kuda hafiz’ to PPP.