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Maryam Nawaz says Pakistan PM Imran Khan, his party is like Coronavirus
11Nov By Joe RodriguezNo Comments
Asia, World

Maryam Nawaz says Pakistan PM Imran Khan, his party is like Coronavirus

In a scathing attack on Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) vice president Maryam Nawaz Sharif, on Monday, likened coronavirus to the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), and Prime Minister Imran Khan."The disease called COVID-19 came to the world recently, but it had already spread in Pakistan in 2018," she said while addressing a public gathering in Gupis, Gilgit-Baltistan.She further said that this disease does not go away by wearing masks, and has to be thrown out.The daughter of former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who is on a seven-day election campaign ahead of the Gilgit-Baltistan elections scheduled for November 15, said it "pained her to take the name of a person like Imran".She added that Khan and his party of 'turncoats' is the nam...
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Last ditch efforts of Imran Khan: Gilgit-Baltistan Elections 2020
9Nov By Brian ThompsonNo Comments
Market

Last ditch efforts of Imran Khan: Gilgit-Baltistan Elections 2020

As the election date for the legislative assembly of Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) come closer (November 15), Pakistani Prime minister Imran Khan paid a visit to the occupied territory on November 1 and made an announcement that could be best described as a bribe to garner support for his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) that has been struggling to find suitable candidates since most of those who were refused party tickets are now contesting against it as independents.Imran matched his visit with the day when on November 1, 1947 Major William Alexander Brown staged a coup against the legitimate ruler of Jammu and Kashmir Maharaja Hari Singh, and arrested his appointed governor Ghansara Singh. The imperial governor agreed to surrender at gunpoint only after he was threatened with the massacre of loca...
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