Federal Minister for Law Azam Nazeer Tarar said Tuesday that if Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo Nawaz Sharif does not secure transit bail while coming back to Pakistan, he can be arrested.
The law minister said that if Nawaz fails to secure transit bail, then he will have to surrender himself and the “courts should provide [relief] to the people who are handing themselves over to the law voluntarily”.
Speaking on the issue, Tarar said that former prime minister Benazir Bhutto also secured transit bail when she came back to Pakistan.
It is pertinent to mention here that the Lahore High Court (LHC) allowed Nawaz to go to London for medical treatment in November 2019.
Former Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General (retd) Pervez Musharraf’s family on Sunday said that they are reviewing the medical, legal, and security challenges before deciding on his return to Pakistan.
Musharraf’s family said that Pakistan lacks the required medicines and medical facilities, adding that a continuous supply of a drug called ‘daratumumab’ and treatment of amyloidosis is needed which is currently not available in the country.
Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz Chief Nawaz Sharif and Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Director-General (DG) Major General Babar Iftikhar both appear to be on the same page regarding Musharraf’s return to Pakistan.
DG ISPR said, “In such a situation, the institution and leadership’s stance is that Pervez Musharraf should return,” said DG ISPR in Dunya News programme, ‘On The Front with Kamran Shahid’.
“Musharraf Saab is seriously ill. We have contacted his family. Once his family responds and the doctors allow him to travel, we can make the required arrangements.”
On the other hand, Nawaz said, “I have no personal enmity or animosity towards Pervez Musharraf. I don’t want anyone else to suffer the traumas I have had to endure for my loved ones. I pray to Almighty Allah for his health. If he wants to return to Pakistan, the government should facilitate him.”
Musharraf, 78, is critically ill these days as he is suffering from a condition called amyloidosis, his office said earlier this month.
Director-General (DG) Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Major General Babar Iftikhar said on Tuesday that the military’s leadership believes that former Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General (retd) Pervez Musharraf should return to Pakistan.
“In such a situation, the institution and leadership’s stance is that Pervez Musharraf should return,” said DG ISPR in Dunya News programme, ‘On The Front with Kamran Shahid’.
“Musharraf Saab is seriously ill. We have contacted his family. Once his family responds and the doctors allow him to travel, we can make the required arrangements.”
Yesterday I broke the story that Pakistan Army has contacted Generel Musharaf for his return to Pakistan … Today DG ISPR Confirmed the news pic.twitter.com/jIyeco11J4
Nawaz Sharif urges govt to facilitate Musharraf’s return
Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo Nawaz Sharif urged the government to facilitate Musharraf’s return to the country.
“I have no personal enmity or animosity towards Pervez Musharraf. I don’t want anyone else to suffer the traumas I have had to endure for my loved ones. I pray to Almighty Allah for his health. If he wants to return to Pakistan, the government should facilitate him,” said Nawaz in a tweet.
میری پرویز مشرف سے کوئی ذاتی دشمنی یا عناد نہیں۔ نہیں چاہتا کہ اپنے پیاروں کے بارے میں جو صدمے مجھے سہنا پڑے، وہ کسی اور کو بھی سہنا پڑیں۔ ان کی صحت کے لیے اللّہ تعالی سے دعاگو ہوں۔ وہ واپس آنا چاہیں تو حکومت سہولت فراہم کرے۔
Intelligence agencies clarified in NSC meeting that there was no conspiracy against Khan: DG ISPR
The military’s spokesperson expressed regret over the propaganda initiated against the army and the military leadership on social media.
DG ISPR once again reiterated that no conspiracy was hatched to oust former Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan. He said that the military leadership was present in the National Security Council (NSC) meeting and the participants were clearly briefed by the intelligence agencies.
Blow to imran khan’s conspiracy theory … watch the details about actually what happened inside the national security committee headed by PM imran khan pic.twitter.com/q09xMHAxTR
“[They were] briefed that there was no conspiracy or evidence of any kind [against the then government], nothing like that happened. Participants were told in detail that there was no evidence of any conspiracy,” said the DG ISPR.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has expressed concern regarding Pakistan’s newly announced budget, according to Finance Minister Miftah Ismail, however the government is convinced it can implement adjustments to appease the lender.
According to Miftah Ismail, Pakistan is expecting to sign a staff-level agreement with the IMF this month.
The government officially launched a Rs9.5 trillion ($47.12 billion) budget for 2022-23 on Friday, striving to persuade the IMF to resume the crucial bailout payments.
“The IMF still has some concerns regarding our budget,” Ismail said in an interview at his Islamabad office. If any alterations are mandated to bring them on board, we will consider them, he added.
He stated that the IMF was displeased regarding fuel subsidies, a growing current account shortfall, and the need to enhance direct taxes.
Fuel subsidies have been lowered in the last two weeks, and the remaining assistance is presumed to be phased out in the days ahead. Proposed budget estimates also aim to reduce the current account deficit, but direct tax revenues remain a concern.
Ismail stated that Pakistan would try to alleviate the issues before the budget is approved by parliament. The fiscal year in Pakistan runs from July 1 to June 30. “If there are any changes that need to be made to bring them on board, we shall do so,” he said.
Pakistan is halfway through a $6 billion, 39-month IMF programme that has been stalled due to the lender’s concerns about the status of some of its goals, including fiscal consolidation. It requires funds direly owing to the country’s shrinking foreign exchange reserves, which have reached $9.2 billion and are only sufficient for fewer than 45 days of imports.
Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah while speaking on Geo News programme ‘Apas ki Baat’ said that the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government itself had made an offer to them regarding the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) and National Accountability Bureau (NAB) amendments and had invited the Opposition for talks when PTI was in power.
Rana Sanaullah said that the PTI later used their suggestions in the media to attack them.
Sanaullah further said that the then Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi called him and said that he wanted to talk to Rana separately.
“Give my salam to Mian Saab [Nawaz Sharif]. All the things you said were correct. We agree but that mad man [Imran Khan] doesn’t agree,” said Qureshi.
“Don’t speak in front of Shahzad Akbar. He is his [Imran Khan]’s agent and tells him everything,” Qureshi said to Sanaullah.
شاہ محمود نے مجھے کہا ایک طرف ہو کر میری بات سنیں باتیں تو آپ کی ساری ٹھیک ہیں لیکن وہ پاگل (عمران) نہیں مانتا
شہزاد اکبر کے سامنے بات مت کیا کریں یہ اس کا ایجنٹ ہے میں یہ باتیں شاہ محمود کے سامنے کہنے کو تیار ہوں رانا ثنااللہ pic.twitter.com/uXtyqv27nK
Anchorperson Muneed Farooq interjected and questioned if Qureshi really called former Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan ‘pagal’, to which Sanaullah said, “I can say it on oath. Call him in front of me.”
Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Vice President Maryam Nawaz on Thursday has said that they too have criticised the establishment in the past but that was never for any political gains. Her comments are relevant to the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan’s recent remarks on the establishment and the division of Pakistan into three parts.
“We have criticised the army as well but not for our political gains like Imran Khan but our remarks were to direct the establishment towards the right direction,” said Maryam.
‘Who introduced the ‘three-piece’ ideology?’
“Sometimes you say Kashmir should be divided into three parts and now you are saying Pakistan will be divided into three parts,” said Maryam Nawaz.
Maryam asked Khan who introduced him to the ideology of the country’s division into “three pieces”.
“Whose ideology is it? Did Zac Goldsmith give you this ideology or Israel? There will be 300 pieces of the one who said such a thing and his party,” she said.
Does he have any role in making Pakistan an atomic power?
Maryam went on to say that the PTI chairman failed within 30 days of assuming the office of prime minister and was exposed within 30 days after being ousted.
She asked under which right did Imran Khan talk about Pakistan’s atomic programme. “Does he have any role in making Pakistan an atomic power?”
“[Politicians] have borne exiles and life sentences for Pakistan. [Zulfiqar Ali] Bhutto and Benazir Bhutto were martyred but the voice of Pakistan Khappay [we want Pakistan] was heard,” she said.
Khan says Pakistan ke teen hissay hongay, Shehbaz warns him not to cross limits
Prime Minister (PM) Shehbaz Sharif warned Imran Khan on Thursday, saying that his recent remarks on Pakistan make him “unfit for public office”.
Khan in an interview with Sami Ibrahim for Bol News programme ‘Tajzia’ said that if Pakistan goes bankrupt, then the country will have to face denuclearisation, predicting that the country would then be divided into three parts.
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan quite frequently comes up with names for his fellow politicians. From names like cherry blossom, kukri, diesel, and nani, Khan has repetitively used these names to demean his political rivals.
Cherry blossom:
Khan has started addressing Prime Minister (PM) Shehbaz Shairf as ‘cherry blossom’ and often calls him “boot polishiya” [someone who polishes boots].
In the same public address, Khan also called Shehbaz as “chooha” [mouse/rat].
Geedar- Nawaz Sharif
The PTI chairman called Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo Nawaz Sharif a “geedar” [jackal] and said, “Geedar (jackal) cannot be a leader.”
Maryam Nani
Imran Khan called PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz “nani” [Grandmother].
Later addressing Maryam as “bachi” [child], Khan said she does not have a political standing.
‘Baby Bilawal- Bilawal Sahiba’
Khan during his jalsa in 2015 addressed Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) chairperson Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari as “beta [son] and baby”. The former premier said, “Bilawal beta this is not how politics is done. Politics is not done by putting pictures of your grandfather and mother in the back ground. We are going to make a Naya Pakistan baby Bilawal.”
In 2019, Khan addressed Bilawal as “sahiba” [Madam]. He said, “Bilawal Bhutto sahiba ki tarhan mein koi kagazh ki parchi pay nahi aya tha.” [I did not come into politics on a piece of paper like Madam Bilawal Bhutto.]
Later in 2020, he referred to Bilawal as a child and criticised him for not having done an actual job in his life.
Diesel- Maulana Fazl
Khan said that Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Major-General Qamar Javed Bajwa asked him not to call Jamiat-Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl’s (JUI-F) Maulana Fazlur Rehman “diesel”.
“I was just talking to Gen Bajwa and he told me not to refer to Fazl as diesel. But I am not the one who is saying that. The people have named him diesel,” said Khan.
Hamza Kukri
The PTI chairman has often called Chief Minister Hamza Shehbaz “kukri” [ chicken].
Khan called Maulana Fazlur Rehman, Shehbaz Sharif, and PPP co-chairperson Asif Ali Zardari the “three stooges”, referring to a classic American programme. This address was before Khan was ousted from power. He told his party members that the no-confidence motion was a “blessing” as it had “lifted” Khan’s party.
اپوزیشن کا دل سے شکریہ ادا کرتا ہوں کہ انہوں نے میری پوری پارٹی کو اکٹھا کر دیا ہے اور اب تمام پارٹی 27 مارچ کو اسلام آباد کی طرف رخ کر رہی ہے۔ وزیراعظم عمران خان #OverseasPakistanisForPMIKpic.twitter.com/U99tGMQVaR
Finance Minister Miftah Ismail has once again said the government doesn’t plan to increase the prices of petroleum products. Talking to the media at the Karachi airport, he said that Prime Minister (PM) Shehbaz Sharif and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo Nawaz Sharif had ruled out the possibility of ending the subsidies.
“It will not happen. I have refused. Shehbaz Sharif sahib has refused. Nawaz Sharif sahib has refused,” said Ismail. “I am assuring you that I will not agree to [the terms] that Shaukat Tarin agreed to.”
He said that according to the deal finalised by former finance minister Shaukat Tarin, Pakistan would have to raise the price of diesel by over Rs150 and petrol by Rs100.
Miftah said that Imran Khan took a loan of Rs20,000 billion, which is 80% of the entire amount of loans taken in 71 years of Pakistan’s history.
He further stated that former planning and development minister Asad Umar caused Pakistan a loss of 9.1%, which was a record loss in 52 years.
“Pakistan exported wheat when we [PML-N] left the government but today the country is importing wheat,” Miftah said.
A team comprising State Bank of Pakistan and Federal Board of Revenue officials, as well as Minister of State for Finance and Revenue Dr Aisha Ghous Pasha and the finance secretary, are already in Doha to negotiate with the IMF.
The talks began on May 18. At the time, Ismail had told the IMF that the government understood the current economic crisis and agreed that it would have to take “tough decisions” while mitigating the effects of inflation on middle to low-income groups.
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Friday referred to Maryam Nawaz’s Sargodha rally and said: “Someone had sent me the speech delivered by Maryam Nawaz in Sargodha yesterday.”
“In that speech, she uttered my name with such passion that I would like to tell her: Maryam, please be careful, your husband may get upset because you were constantly repeating my name again and again with such emotion.”
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said that the entire nation, especially women, should strongly condemn the “deplorable language used against the daughter of the nation Maryam Nawaz”.
بیٹی مریم نواز شریف کے خلاف قابل افسوس زبان درازی پر پوری قوم خاص طور پر خواتین پرزور مذمت کریں۔ کم ظرفی کے اظہار سے ملک وقوم کے خلاف آپ کے جرائم چھپ نہیں سکتے۔ مسجد نبوی کی حرمت و ناموس کا پاس نہ کرنے والوں سے ماؤں، بہنوں، بیٹیوں کی عزت وتکریم کی کیا توقع ہوسکتی ہے۔
“Your crimes against the country and the nation cannot be hidden. How could those — who cannot respect the sanctity of Masjid Nabawi (PBUH) — be expected to respect the honour of someone’s mothers, sisters, and daughters?”
He continued: “Imran is the first person in history to fall into this abyss of rudeness as the leader of a party. His party went out to make a nation but spoiled the morals of the people instead. To Allah, we belong and to Him, we shall return.”
PML-N supreme leader Nawaz Sharif responded to Khan’s controversial comments about his daughter and said, “He does not know how to respect women. He uses derogatory language, which has not even been witnessed in the worst society. He does know not how to respect women, and he talks about Riyaasat-e-Madinah.”
Former president Asif Ali Zardari said that he condemned the derogatory language used by the PTI chairman.
“Those who have mothers and sisters in their homes do not use such language against other women,” the PPP co-chairman said. “Please, do not stoop so low in the name of politics.”
He added that every person’s mother, sister, and daughter was worthy of respect and that was the message of Shaheed Benazir Bhutto to the nation.
“I wish someone would also write a letter to the chief justice of Pakistan based on personal observation and he would take notice of the matter,” he said.
PML-N on its official Twitter account, right after the Multan rally, shared a photo of Imran Khan’s sons and Tyrian White with the message saying how could a man who has not “owned up to his own daughter” respect the daughters of others.
Screenshot of a tweet of PML-N
However, the tweet has now been deleted once people started condemning it.
Actor-host Mishi Khan took to her Instagram handle to call out Aamir Liaquat for his conduct over the years.
The Janaan diva said that what’s happening with the Aalim Online star now is the karma of Junaid Jamshed as because of Liaquat, a group of citizens attacked Junaid Jamshed.
“Mr. Aamir Liaquat please don’t do these silly videos with your flip crying acting as it’s too late for you to give lame excuses to save your skin. You are exposed big time and your decision to leave the country is probably the most wise one. It’s too late….Your over confidence & erratic behaviour made you lose everything and of course what you said for Junaid Jamshed’s mother on live TV. Makafat e Amal. What goes around comes around so better to leave if you have little integrity and self-respect left. Stop your nonsensical videos as they won’t save your dwindled reputation.”
She also asked him that when is he leaving Pakistan and offered help in case he is not able to book a ticket.
Earlier Mishi re-shared a video of former Prime Minister Nawaz to express her disappointment and disagreement with his scrutiny of Imran Khan’s economic decisions. Mishi said that its all a lie, she also asked that when will Pakistan get rid of Sharif clan.
