Shahbaz Sharif, the next Chief Minister of Punjab
submitted 2 months 21 days 20 hours ago by: AngryYoungMan : 17 comments
Shahbaz Sharif has finally been elected "Unopposed" as member of the Punjab Assemble and will be taking oath as the Chief Minister of Punjab succeeding the temporary CM Sardar Dost Muhammad Khosa who along with his cabinet ministers has already tendered his resignation to the Governor Punjab.
People, especially of Lahore, have very high hopes with the new CM because of his historic achievements as a powerful and authoritative administrator, who had done some impressive job in uplifting the face of Punjab.
The only issue, which is concerning some, is that previously the federal government was also run by Muslim League with his brother Mian Nawaz Sharif on the seat of Prime Minister. This time around however, the federal government is commanded by the Peoples Party and to top it all, the "Selected" governor of Punjab "Salman Taseer" is also from Peoples Party and a favoured man of President General Pervez Musharraf. Even if nothing goes wrong at the administrative level, an air of tension would probably still be there in Punjab.
Let's see how much will Shabaz be able to deliver under the current circumstances.
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Deal...Deal....
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atleast these schmucks i.e nawaz and shahbaz got their hair transplants while being abroad. Morons they are off course , lets see which other palace they build after this rule. They talk about dictatorship while they were the product of one. Pretty soon for them to forget how they sucked upto zia-ul-haq to get ministries.
Help,
Bravo - I actually started to believe that Shariff brothers are granted the
status of Holy Cows in Pakistan.
After all they have suffered immensely in exile. Instead of living in Raiwind
Palace they were forced to live in Jaddah
Mansion. This is a big sacrifice on
their part for cause of free judiciary and democracy. So let’s not talk of
their history as the anguish of exile has washed away their previous records.
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Please, once and for all tell me what the " previous records" include
Sorry Khalifah you are helpless. You can't see things
clearly. Your loyalty to these two buggers has become a disability
;)
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Well, you have yet to bring forth any charges to enlighten me or as I suspect, there are none?
Only to start with
"In order to consolidate and attain more power, N. Sharif attacked
every individual and institutions he felt could get in the way challenge his
authority. In order to get rid of the then Chief Justice Sajjad Ali Shah, who
was despised by Sharif, the later created divisions among the judges to make
life difficult for the Chief Justice. A group of judges refused to acknowledge
Shah as the Chief Justice and things got so bad that a number of junior judges
put hurdles in the way of the Chief Justice in order to make it difficult for
him to carry out his duties. Eventually, Sharif ordered his thugs to attack the
Supreme Court in order to prevent the Chief Justice from giving a ruling
against him.
The police did nothing to stop Sharif’s thugs as they attacked and entered
the Supreme Court. The judges inside the building barely managed to escape. The
thugs, led by Sajjad Naseem and Mushtaq Tahir, Nawaz Sharif’s political
secretaries, entered the court chanting anti-Sajjad slogans and destroyed the
furniture.
Next, consider Nawaz Sharif’s relationship with the press and media. Two
examples will suffice. On 8th May 1999,
Najam Sethi, a prominent journalist of Pakistan,
was arrested by the police on the orders of Sharif. Sethi has committed the
crime of annoying Nawaz Sharif by writing a critical essay against him. The
police broke into Sethi’s house at around 2 am
and beat him up in his bedroom in front of his wife, after which he was
transported off to a secret location. The police trashed Sethi’s house, broke
the furniture and beat him up quite bad. Sethi was only released after a lot of
international pressure had built up against Sharif. Sharif also demanded the
Jang Group to get rid of all the journalists who were critical of him. To
achieve this goal, Sharif and his cronies used a variety of legal and illegal
means to pressure the Jang Group into compliance.
There is probably no institution in Pakistan
which Nawaz Sharif did not aggressively confront in order make them comply to
his wishes. Besides picking on a fight with the President, the Judiciary and
the already restricted/limited media, Sharif also decided to have a
confrontation with the army, the only viable institution left in Pakistan.
Chief of Army Staff, General Jehangir Karamat, and Nawaz Sharif had a conflict
over an issue pertaining to the national security council and both entered into
a heated discussion, after which Gen. Karamat had to offer his resignation.
Jehangir Karamat thus became the first Chief of Army Staff in the history of Pakistan
to have left the army in this prematurely in this manner.
One by one all challenges and potential obstacles were removed from the way
by Nawaz Sharif. Ghulam Ishaq Khan, Farooq Leghari, Sajjad Ali Shah, and
Jehangir Karamat, as well as others, were all removed from the scene by
Sharif".
Several others crimes include forging elections results, supporting
extremists, misuse of authority, altering trade rules through SRO to benefit
his private businesses, supporting dictatorship of Gen. Zia, ordering passenger
plane hijack etc.
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These 'charges' which were originally brought forward by Mianjee have already been addressed in that buzz. But just to reiterate,
1. Sajjad Ali Shah was a threat to democracy as evidenced by his ruling upholding the dismissal of Benazir's legitimately elected government and his reluctance in upholding legislation introduced by the Nawaz government which would have empowered civilian governments. Secondly an INDEPENDENT judiciary did not find any evidence of Nawaz's culpability in the SC attack. His overzealous supporters thought this move would please their master
2. He is guilty as charged on these counts, kidnapping Najam Sethi and pressurizing Jang. However, unlike the Musharraf regime, media outlets were not silenced whole scale.
3. The rest are either fabricated charges and were actually dropped by the parties that brought them or don't constitute 'crimes' at all. Confrontation with the army etc, is a moral obligation of any civilian government to make sure that these chokidars never come to power again.
1. So according to your definition a judge that rules against Nawaz is a
threat to democracy and the one who rules in favor is an independent judge. If
this is your criteria then I feel sorry for you.
2. So it proves Musharraf a bigger criminal and Nawaz a smaller criminal on
media curb criteria. This however does not prove him innocent. I feel sorry for
you if you see him innocent.
3. I feel sorry for your argument as it does not have any spine.
An advice: Try to stay objective. You loyalty with Nawaz is envious but it
undermines your contribution in any debate involving Pakistan
politics.
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1. No, Sajjad had already proved himself a threat to democracy by siding with the military once so it was imperative that he be removed
2. I did say he is guilty as charged
3. Almost ALL charges against him were brought after the coup but the only one that was upheld (by Musharraf's court at that and ALL OTHERS WERE THROWN OUT) was for 'hijacking a plane'. Incidentally, Musharaff in his autobiography has stated that he ordered the plane to land in Karachi and not anywhere else. So by this admission it was Musharraf who 'hijacked' the plane
Who decides which court is free + fair and which one is not? Your defense is
very weak. Emotionally strong but weak on content.
An advice: Try to stay objective. You loyalty with Nawaz is envious but it
undermines your contribution in any debate involving Pakistan politics.
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i think khalifa has lost this argument by a wide margin. on one count he agrees that nawaz is guilty as charged and yet he sides with him. feel pity for u khalifa, how helpless u r.
Sob * I'm going to have to cry myself to sleep today * Sob
POOR U. how hard u tried to hide yr embarassment. How hold r u by the way. my guess would be somewhere in early teens.
Finally a development MAN instead of the a Security CREEPS (The Chaudharies that is).
ALL OF LAHORE HAS TO STAND AROUND A RED LIGHT FOR THE BASTARD TO PASS.
Nothing really changed then - only new faces
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Looking at the new peoples party its strange that the new threat to the survival of our beloved land is from PIR-MURID (Shah GEE) types and not from the traditional Land-Lard.