Tag: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz

Pakistan opposition leaders meet to plan anti-govt march
8Mar By Mike TrudellNo Comments
World

Pakistan opposition leaders meet to plan anti-govt march

Just a day after Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan secured a victory in the trust vote in the National Assembly, Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) sprung into action and convened an important meeting on Sunday to discuss plans related to the anti-government long march.According to PML-N spokesperson Maryam Aurangzeb, the meeting was convened at the party office in Chak Shehzad at 1:30 pm on Sunday.Party vice president Maryam Nawaz Sharif attended the meeting, whereas, former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and former finance minister Ishaq Dar joined the meeting virtually from London.Leader of Opposition Punjab Assembly Hamza Shahbaz also participated from Lahore virtually.The meeting reviewed the no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Imran Khan while Opposition leaders also expected to fo...
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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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PM Modi, Abhinandan posters come up in Pakistan MP Ayaz Sadiq’s constituency
2Nov By Joe RodriguezNo Comments
Asia

PM Modi, Abhinandan posters come up in Pakistan MP Ayaz Sadiq’s constituency

Facing severe backlash over his remarks against Pakistan Army chief, posters featuring Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Sardar Ayaz Sadiq with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Indian Air Force Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman came up in parts of Lahore.The posters, which dubbed him as “traitor”, went viral on social media after first being spotted in the constituency of the former National Assembly speaker.In some of the posters, Sadiq’s face was morphed to resemble Varthaman.This came days after Sadiq told the Parliament that Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa was perspiring and his “legs were shaking” when Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said that India would have attacked “that night at 10 pm” if Pakistan did not release Abhinandan."I remember Shah Mahmood Qureshi ...
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