Showing posts with label Nawaz Sharif. Show all posts
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Monday, September 20, 2010
PML-N vows to defend democracy
LAHORE: After Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani’s speech in Lahore on Saturday, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has made a final decision to adopt a stern stand to defend democracy.
A strategy has been crafted to present the party’s point of view in the sessions of the National Assembly and the Senate starting on Monday (today) on issues such as the government’s performance, help to flood survivors, and Indian atrocities in disputed Kashmir.
Nawaz Sharif chaired a special meeting of the party leadership held at his Raiwind estate on Saturday. Attendees included central and provincial leaders of the party, including Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, Opposition Leader in the National Assembly Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, Senator Parvez Rashid and Khawja Saad Rafiq.
The meeting had detailed consultations on the present political situation. Three adjournment motions submitted by the party in the National Assembly also figured in the discussions and a strategy was devised on how the party MPs will tackle issues in the Parliament.
The meeting decided that if democracy is threatened, the PML-N should be the first to come out into the field and face whatever the circumstances. A clear-cut stand will be taken on the Kashmir situation and voice will be raised in the parliament in support of the Kashmiri protesters, the party resolved.
Sharif told the meeting that his party had no differences with the federal government and if any threat to democracy emerged, the PML-N would be the first to put up defence for it. He added that the federal government should also take decisions according to the desires of the federation, respect institutions, including the judiciary, in order to bolster democracy.
A strategy has been crafted to present the party’s point of view in the sessions of the National Assembly and the Senate starting on Monday (today) on issues such as the government’s performance, help to flood survivors, and Indian atrocities in disputed Kashmir.
Nawaz Sharif chaired a special meeting of the party leadership held at his Raiwind estate on Saturday. Attendees included central and provincial leaders of the party, including Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, Opposition Leader in the National Assembly Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, Senator Parvez Rashid and Khawja Saad Rafiq.
The meeting had detailed consultations on the present political situation. Three adjournment motions submitted by the party in the National Assembly also figured in the discussions and a strategy was devised on how the party MPs will tackle issues in the Parliament.
The meeting decided that if democracy is threatened, the PML-N should be the first to come out into the field and face whatever the circumstances. A clear-cut stand will be taken on the Kashmir situation and voice will be raised in the parliament in support of the Kashmiri protesters, the party resolved.
Sharif told the meeting that his party had no differences with the federal government and if any threat to democracy emerged, the PML-N would be the first to put up defence for it. He added that the federal government should also take decisions according to the desires of the federation, respect institutions, including the judiciary, in order to bolster democracy.
Monday, August 2, 2010
Musharraf to unveil his party manifesto in September
Former military ruler General Pervez Musharraf will unveil the manifesto of his new party and announce the date of his return to Pakistan in September, one of his aides has said.
Chaudhry Shahbaz Husain, chief coordinator of the All Pakistan Muslim League set up by Musharraf, said the former president would stage his comeback before the next general election, irrespective of whether they are held "mid-term" or "end-term".
The APML has been in touch with PML-Q leaders for the past three months for a possible unification and Husain claim during a news conference in Lahore yesterday that both factions would soon assemble on the same platform.
Husain said that the APML's leaders would call on PML-Functional chief Pir Pagaro, leaders of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement and other political parties in Sindh this month.
He said, if invited, the APML could join the alliance recently formed by three Muslim League factions.
Chaudhry Shahbaz Husain, chief coordinator of the All Pakistan Muslim League set up by Musharraf, said the former president would stage his comeback before the next general election, irrespective of whether they are held "mid-term" or "end-term".
The APML has been in touch with PML-Q leaders for the past three months for a possible unification and Husain claim during a news conference in Lahore yesterday that both factions would soon assemble on the same platform.
Husain said that the APML's leaders would call on PML-Functional chief Pir Pagaro, leaders of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement and other political parties in Sindh this month.
He said, if invited, the APML could join the alliance recently formed by three Muslim League factions.
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Nawaz okays launch of PML-N in AJK
LAHORE: The PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif has accorded a formal approval for the launching of his party in the AJK.He granted this approval at a meeting with the ex-AJK prime minister Raja Farooq Haider at Raiwand Farm here on Tuesday.
PML-N senior leader Senators Muhammad Zafarul Haq and Senator Pervez Rashid were also present on the occasion. Farooq Haider apprised the PML-N chief of no-trust motion tabled by opposition parties led by Muslim Conference chief Sardar Atiq.
Nawaz said he had already made up his mind to form N-league in the AJK. However, he deferred his decision due to reconciliation with Sardar Qayum and Sardar Atiq. He said the PML-N is dead set against govt intervention in the AJK political and administrative matters. He said it is “our long term demand that the elected representatives over there should be given full authority to conduct political and administrative matters”.
“It has now become essential to launch the PML-N for the people of Kashmir and continuation of freedom movement,” he said. According to sources, Nawaz has also constituted a committee to organise the party in the AJK. Senior leader Raja Zafarul Haq will be the head of the committee.
Member Kashmir Council Sardar Farooq Sikandar has been appointed as the PML-N Secretary General in the AJK while they discussed the names of Barrister Sultan Mehmood Chaudhry, Raja Farooq and Sardar Sikandar for the party presidentship in the AJK.
The three members committee would review and choose the party president in the AJK among Barrister Sultan Mehmood Chaudhry and Sardar Sikandar. The committee would soon finalise the name of president and present the report to Nawaz Sharif.
PML-N senior leader Senators Muhammad Zafarul Haq and Senator Pervez Rashid were also present on the occasion. Farooq Haider apprised the PML-N chief of no-trust motion tabled by opposition parties led by Muslim Conference chief Sardar Atiq.
Nawaz said he had already made up his mind to form N-league in the AJK. However, he deferred his decision due to reconciliation with Sardar Qayum and Sardar Atiq. He said the PML-N is dead set against govt intervention in the AJK political and administrative matters. He said it is “our long term demand that the elected representatives over there should be given full authority to conduct political and administrative matters”.
“It has now become essential to launch the PML-N for the people of Kashmir and continuation of freedom movement,” he said. According to sources, Nawaz has also constituted a committee to organise the party in the AJK. Senior leader Raja Zafarul Haq will be the head of the committee.
Member Kashmir Council Sardar Farooq Sikandar has been appointed as the PML-N Secretary General in the AJK while they discussed the names of Barrister Sultan Mehmood Chaudhry, Raja Farooq and Sardar Sikandar for the party presidentship in the AJK.
The three members committee would review and choose the party president in the AJK among Barrister Sultan Mehmood Chaudhry and Sardar Sikandar. The committee would soon finalise the name of president and present the report to Nawaz Sharif.
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
The new power play
NRO has served its purpose as conceived. PPP, the main beneficiary, is now trying to consign it to the archives of a bygone age. It says there is no use beating a dead horse. But the Supreme Court verdict stands in the way. All kinds of contrivances are being resorted to in order to abort the effect of that verdict. The emerging reality in national polity appears to favour the PPP position. The shape that reality is taking is PPP-military alliance for governance. PPP is the facade, the military holds the strings. When Mr Zardari therefore asserts that no opposition can dislodge the present PPP dispensation, he has solid ground to say that.
On the other hand, the Brothers Corporation which goes by the name of PML (N) is out of the loop. It is being cornered constantly. The sudden outburst of a maligning campaign against the Punjab Government is not without sponsorship and purpose. Regrettably, Nawaz Sharif, twice failed to judge the military psyche, once when he showed the door to General Karamat, and again, when he failed to read the signal of a guard of honour given to General Musharraf on his departure. General Yahya lost half of Pakistan, while boozing and merry-making, but when he died, he was buried with full military honours by none else than the self-proclaimed Mard-e-Momin. Not only the PPP but also ANP is in the loop after Asfandyar Wali’s ‘fruitful’ visit to Washington early last year. MQM is also in the bag. Altaf Bhai is basking in the British sunshine. Nawaz Sharif was tricked into many missteps both by Zardari and his own flawed reading of the new realities. His decision to support the change of NWFP’s name to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa cost him his strongest constituency of Hazara, whose vote in favour of joining Pakistan was the deciding factor in’ the historic referendum at the time of independence. His nomination of his son-in-law’s younger brother as PML(N) candidate in Mansehra resulted in a defeat at an awkward moment.
Instead of looking at the political scenario from an ivory tower of his own making, he should have realised that given his past track record, the military would be wary of a smooth working equation with him. He should also have known, the proverbial vengefulness of the elephant. US did not spare Bhutto for his nuclear ambitions. How could it overlook Nawaz’s defiance in detonating the bomb. His latest pleadings to the Prime Minister, which he readily accepted, to convene an all-parties conference to chalk out a comprehensive plan of action against ‘terrorism’ is being seen as an effort to remain relevant in the new power play. Terrorism is essentially the result of the quite thinly-disguised Judo-Christian crusade against Muslims all over the world together with the urge to grab their “abundant energy and other key resources for their exclusive access and exploitation.As a fellow-traveller when India, for instance, brands resistance fighters against its occupation in Kashmir as terrorists, the West may readily chime in to promote its own agenda but can we in Pakistan join the chorus. For us they are freedom fighters. Nawaz Sharif therefore fumbled again in picking up the fight against ‘terrorism’ as his first priority. He ignored the wide divergence of views held by the people about what they regard as ‘terrorism’ and whom they consider as ‘terrorists’. Voices were raised in massive rallies of protest against the Data Durbar tragedy throughout Pakistan that the hands behind it are of those who are bent on fanning sectarian conflict.
Again, when Nawaz Sharif rightly castigated the dastardly attack on Ahmadi places of worship, resulting in a heavy loss of innocent lives, his incautious choice of words in calling them ‘brothers’ was politically naive and made him an easy target of those religious elements who thrive on hatred of Ahmadis. He could have avoided that without diluting his condemnation of the crime. Now look at the other end of the spectrum. It is PPP’s political culture not to tolerate a political rival of consequence. Didn’t Bhutto constantly conspire against the opposition governments in NWFP and Balochistan and ultimately dismissed them. Didn’t he then follow it up with ordering military action in Balochistan? The genii he unleashed ultimately devoured him. There is a lesson in this for the present PPP outfit, which is a pygmy version of ZAB ‘s. Does the PPP think that with military’s pat on its back, it can rule as “master of all that I survey”: loot’ grab and squander or that it can not only defy the judiciary but campaign to bring down the judicial edifice and get away unscathed. It is PPP’s penchant for cantankerous politics that has further eroded the standing of the civilian component in national polity.
What is needed is a radical reassessment and reorientation of national polity — an agreement on an institutional working equation between the civilians and the military in governance. Repeated military interventions and willing civilian collaboration have established new ground realities. Unless these are recognised and necessary power adjustments made avowedly, the national polity will continue to be in doldrums as at present. On its parts, the military has to get down from the high horse and realise that it is not sophisticated hardware that ensures security but a contented people. We should have learnt that lesson for good after the 1971 national tragedy.
On the other hand, the Brothers Corporation which goes by the name of PML (N) is out of the loop. It is being cornered constantly. The sudden outburst of a maligning campaign against the Punjab Government is not without sponsorship and purpose. Regrettably, Nawaz Sharif, twice failed to judge the military psyche, once when he showed the door to General Karamat, and again, when he failed to read the signal of a guard of honour given to General Musharraf on his departure. General Yahya lost half of Pakistan, while boozing and merry-making, but when he died, he was buried with full military honours by none else than the self-proclaimed Mard-e-Momin. Not only the PPP but also ANP is in the loop after Asfandyar Wali’s ‘fruitful’ visit to Washington early last year. MQM is also in the bag. Altaf Bhai is basking in the British sunshine. Nawaz Sharif was tricked into many missteps both by Zardari and his own flawed reading of the new realities. His decision to support the change of NWFP’s name to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa cost him his strongest constituency of Hazara, whose vote in favour of joining Pakistan was the deciding factor in’ the historic referendum at the time of independence. His nomination of his son-in-law’s younger brother as PML(N) candidate in Mansehra resulted in a defeat at an awkward moment.
Instead of looking at the political scenario from an ivory tower of his own making, he should have realised that given his past track record, the military would be wary of a smooth working equation with him. He should also have known, the proverbial vengefulness of the elephant. US did not spare Bhutto for his nuclear ambitions. How could it overlook Nawaz’s defiance in detonating the bomb. His latest pleadings to the Prime Minister, which he readily accepted, to convene an all-parties conference to chalk out a comprehensive plan of action against ‘terrorism’ is being seen as an effort to remain relevant in the new power play. Terrorism is essentially the result of the quite thinly-disguised Judo-Christian crusade against Muslims all over the world together with the urge to grab their “abundant energy and other key resources for their exclusive access and exploitation.As a fellow-traveller when India, for instance, brands resistance fighters against its occupation in Kashmir as terrorists, the West may readily chime in to promote its own agenda but can we in Pakistan join the chorus. For us they are freedom fighters. Nawaz Sharif therefore fumbled again in picking up the fight against ‘terrorism’ as his first priority. He ignored the wide divergence of views held by the people about what they regard as ‘terrorism’ and whom they consider as ‘terrorists’. Voices were raised in massive rallies of protest against the Data Durbar tragedy throughout Pakistan that the hands behind it are of those who are bent on fanning sectarian conflict.
Again, when Nawaz Sharif rightly castigated the dastardly attack on Ahmadi places of worship, resulting in a heavy loss of innocent lives, his incautious choice of words in calling them ‘brothers’ was politically naive and made him an easy target of those religious elements who thrive on hatred of Ahmadis. He could have avoided that without diluting his condemnation of the crime. Now look at the other end of the spectrum. It is PPP’s political culture not to tolerate a political rival of consequence. Didn’t Bhutto constantly conspire against the opposition governments in NWFP and Balochistan and ultimately dismissed them. Didn’t he then follow it up with ordering military action in Balochistan? The genii he unleashed ultimately devoured him. There is a lesson in this for the present PPP outfit, which is a pygmy version of ZAB ‘s. Does the PPP think that with military’s pat on its back, it can rule as “master of all that I survey”: loot’ grab and squander or that it can not only defy the judiciary but campaign to bring down the judicial edifice and get away unscathed. It is PPP’s penchant for cantankerous politics that has further eroded the standing of the civilian component in national polity.
What is needed is a radical reassessment and reorientation of national polity — an agreement on an institutional working equation between the civilians and the military in governance. Repeated military interventions and willing civilian collaboration have established new ground realities. Unless these are recognised and necessary power adjustments made avowedly, the national polity will continue to be in doldrums as at present. On its parts, the military has to get down from the high horse and realise that it is not sophisticated hardware that ensures security but a contented people. We should have learnt that lesson for good after the 1971 national tragedy.
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Nawaz Sharif blames government for mismanagement in scathing attack
Islamabad: Former premier Nawaz Sharif launched a bitter attack on the government Tuesday, blaming it for economic mismanagement, rampant corrupt ion and confrontation with the judiciary.
Addressing a news conference in Lahore after a high-level meeting of his main opposition Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N), he said his party would not remain a “silent spectator” and would play its role for containing the overall deterioration without upsetting the democratic system.
He demanded a thorough debate in the parliament on the conditions prevailing in the country in order to evolve a national strategy to reverse the drift into chaos.
Sharif once again denounced what he called attempts by the government to “buy loyalties of lawyers” and turn them against the judiciary by doling out financial grants to bars in Punjab province and other areas through its law minister. A number of bar associations had refused such handouts, he said and praised their stand recalling the struggle waged by the lawyer community and the PML-N that led to the restoration of the independent judiciary in March last year.
He said since the transition from dictatorship to democratic rule after the February 2008 general election, his party had taken care that the system was not destabilized, though it had to face criticism that it was acting as a friendly opposition to the Pakistan People's Party government.
“The economy is going down the drain and the situation in the country is rapidly deteriorating because of misrule and corruption. We cannot watch this deterioration silently; the direction has to be changed,” he said.
Sharif said courts in France have concluded that the Agosta submarine deal with Pakistan during the PPP government had involvement kickbacks. He said it was not difficult to pinpoint culprits and demanded that necessary action be taken.
He said when his party was in power the country's economy was flourishing, the value of Pakistani rupee was more than the Indian currency and the country did not have to beg loans from others.
The opposition leader's onslaught came amid ongoing tussle between the executive and the judiciary and emerging prospect of many federal and provincial lawmakers losing their seats as a result of a scandal over alleged fake educational degrees of parliamentarians.
Around 10 legislators belonging to PML-N, PPP and PML-Q have already quit in the wake of proceedings in courts on challenges to authenticity of their degrees they had furnished to contest the 2008 elections when graduation was a pre-requisite for participation in parliamentary polls.
The Higher Education Commission (HEC) is currently engaged in a process to verify degrees of hundreds of legislators, following a Supreme Court order to the Election Commission to initiate action against lawmakers whose degrees were found to be spurious.
Political analysts say if a large number of lawmakers stood disqualified such a situation could warrant holding of fresh elections instead of filling vacant seats through by-polls. The two-year old government has dismissed suggestions of mid-term elections.
Asked at his news conference about PML-N stance over the issue, Sharif said his party was watching the developing situation and would take a decision at the appropriate time.
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
SC orders by-poll on three seats in Punjab
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court ordered the Election Commission on Monday to hold by-elections within two months in three constituencies of Punjab. They are NA-123, Lahore; PP-82, Jhang; and PP-284, Bahawalnagar.
The three-member bench comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhmmad Chaudhry, Justice Chaudhry Ijaz Ahmed and Justice Ghulam Rabbani issued the order on a petition filed by Syed Manzoor Gillani.
The Punjab Chief Secretary and a candidate had approached the Lahore High Court, seeking postponement of elections in the three constituencies and NA-55, Rawalpindi, citing law and order in the province.
A single-judge bench of the LHC had delayed by-polls in these constituencies, citing the volatile situation in Swat valley and upheld the stance of the provincial government that the ECP could not issue a notification for re-scheduling the by-polls in the province without hearing the provincial government’s viewpoint.
Disposing of the petition on Monday, the Supreme Court ordered the ECP to allow filing of fresh nominations by new candidates willing to contest the by-elections. It clarified that nominations already filed by candidates would remain intact.
The decision is similar to the Supreme Court judgment ordering the ECP to hold by-election in NA-55, Rawalpindi, on a petition filed by Awami Muslim League leader Sheikh Rashid Ahmed.
The Supreme Court, while deciding the matter relating to NA-55, had held that the ECP was an independent constitutional body and not subservient to any executive authority which was bound to assist the commission in holding elections.
Khawaja Haris, representing the chief secretary of Punjab, said that the polls had been postponed because of the serious law and order situation in tribal areas of the country.For More News Click Here
Monday, January 4, 2010
2009: The year in quotes
January:
“Why would she leave it to me if she didn’t think I was fit enough?”
President Asif Ali Zardari in an interview with journalist Christina Lamb on Benazir Bhutto bequeathing control of the PPP to him in a controversial 17-page will.
February:
“It’s not a judicial decision, it’s an edict….It amounts to stabbing me in the back.”
PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif alleging that the Supreme Court’s decision to make him and his brother Shahbaz Sharif, Chief Minister of Punjab, ineligible to contest elections or hold public offices was ordered directly by President Zardari.
March:
“I restore the deposed chief justice and others according to the promise made by me and the president.”
Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani announces the reinstatement of Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhary who was deposed by former President General Pervez Musharraf.
April:
“We direct that till final disposal of the main petitions under review, the operation of February 25, 2009 shall remain suspended and the petitioner (Shahbaz Sharif) shall assume the chief minister’s office with immediate effect.”
The Supreme Court restores Shahbaz Sharif as Chief Minister of Punjab.
May:
“The medical board has reported that Shoaib Akhtar was suffering from genital viral warts and the wound needs further care and treatment for a minimum 10 days for the purpose of healing and to achieve skin cover.”
The PCB on why cricketer Shoaib Akhtar was dropped from the Twenty20 team.
June:
“I’m not in favour of American broadcasting, I am in favour of strong broadcasting by independent stations like [Radio Buraq]…. There’s not going to be an American radio station in western Pakistan.”
US Special envoy Richard Holbrooke on how the US intends to win the information war against the ‘FM mullahs’ in the Frontier province.
July:
“So long as Article 6 (high treason) is part of the Constitution, parliament is debarred from even condoning unconstitutional acts of (a) usurper, what to talk of validating, affirming and adopting the same.”
The Supreme Court declaring General Musharraf’s November 2007 emergency rule and any future endorsements of military takeovers illegal and unconstitutional.
August:
“This is one hundred per cent. We have no doubt about his death…..he is dead and buried.”
Pakistani official announcing the death of the chief of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, Baitullah Mehsud, who was killed by a US Predator drone attack.
September:
“Mujhay yeh pata hai, mainay kamaskum Heera Mandi se nahi shura kiya tha. Itna mujhay pata hai…. Mera career as a prostitute start nahi howa tha. Mujhay is baat ka fakhr hai.”
[I know that, at least, I didn’t start from Heera Mandi. I know this much: my career didn’t begin as a prostitute. I am proud of this fact.]
Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan in a heated on-air argument on a televised talk show with PML-Q member Kashmala Tariq who previously had called the PPP minister a ‘lota’ in reference to her defection from the PML-Q to the PPP.
October:
“No security-related assistance may be provided to Pakistan in a fiscal year until the Secretary of State, under the direction of the President, makes the certification (that) … the Government of Pakistan has made progress on matters such as ceasing support, including by any elements within the Pakistan military or its intelligence agency, to extremist and terrorist groups, particularly to any group that has conducted attacks against United States or coalition forces in Afghanistan, or against the territory or people of neighboring countries.”
Conditions stipulated in the Enhanced Partnership with Pakistan Act of 2009 (the Kerry Lugar bill) on limitations of military aid to Pakistan.
“Pakistan is a sovereign state and has all the rights to analyse and respond to the (terrorist) threat in accordance with her own national interests…. The forum expressed serious concern regarding clauses impacting on National Security.”
Statement issued by the public relations wing of the Pakistani military on the Kerry Lugar bill in a meeting held by Chief of Army Staff, General Ashfaq Perwez Kiyani.
November:
“We will be the back after right… we will be the back after right short break… ye toilet kitna duur hai… can we rehase… reharse… rehearsal.”
Secret footage showing Pakistani actress Meera attempting to speak English in an interview she’s conducting with fashion photographer Tapu Javeri.
December:
“We would again become Pakistan’s brother if Pakistan ends its support for America.”
Pakistan Taliban commander Walilur Rahman
“Corruption peh hamara haq nai hai? Auron ka hai. Yeh to culture ban chuka hai. Agar jo nai karta wo nuksaan karha apna. Hazaar meh se ek admi corruption nai karta, wo to apna nuksaan karta hai.”
[Don’t we have a right to corruption? Others do. This has become a culture. Whoever doesn’t do it, they’ll find they’re ruining themselves. In a thousand, if one man doesn’t do corruption, he’s ruining himself.]
PPP minister Sardar Abdul Qayum Jatoi in a current affairs show interview.
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Saturday, December 26, 2009
’این آر او سے مستفید وزراء مستعفی ہوں‘
مسلم لیگ (ن) کے سربراہ نوازشریف نے پیپلز پارٹی کی حکومت پر تنقید کرتے ہوئے کہا کہ حکومت کو چاہیے تھا کہ وہ قومی مفاہمتی آرڈیننس یا این آر او سے فائد اٹھانے والے وزراء سے استعفےٰ لیتی لیکن ایسا نہیں کیا گیا۔
نوازشریف کی سربراہی میں اسلام آباد میں ہونے والے مسلم لیگ ن کے اجلاس کے بعد نیوز کانفرنس سے خطاب کرتے ہوئے مسلم لیگ (ن) کے قائد نے کہا کہ حکومت کو چاہیے تھا کہ وہ وزراء سے استعفےٰ لیتی اور پھر وہ عدالتوں کا سامنا کرتے اور جن کو عدالت بے گناہ قرار دیتی ان کو دوبارہ اپنے عہدوں پر بحال کیا جاتا۔‘
اگرچہ مسلم لیگ کے کئی رہنما این آر او سے فائدہ اٹھانے والے وفاقی وزراء سے مستعفیٰ ہونے کا مطالبہ کرتے رہے ہیں لیکن پہلی مرتبہ مسلم لیگ کے سربراہ نوازشریف کی طرف اس طرح کا بیان سامنے آیا۔
واضح رہے کہ حکومت پہلے ہی کہہ چکی ہے کہ صرف الزامات کی بنیاد پر وزراء سے استعفےٰ طلب نہیں کریں گے۔
مسلم لیگ کے قائد نے کہا کہ حکومت کو این آر او کے بارے میں سپریم کورٹ کے فیصلے کا احترام کرنا چاہیے اور اس پر اس کی اصل روح کے مطابق عمل درآمد کرنا چاہیے۔
انہوں نے وزیر اعظم سید یوسف رضا گیلانی کے اس موقف سے اختلاف کیا جس میں انہوں نے کہا تھا کہ وہ این آر او کے بارے میں سپریم کورٹ کے تفصیلی فیصلے کا انتظار کررہے ہیں۔
نواز شریف نے کہا کہ کہ عدالت کی طرف سے سترہ صفحات پر مشتل تفصلی فیصلہ آچکا ہے اور اب حکومت کو عدالت کے حکم کی تعمیل کرنی چاہیے۔
پاکستان کی سپریم کورٹ نے سولہ دسمبر کو قومی مفاہمتی آرڈیننس یا این آر او کو آئین سے متصادم قرار دیتے ہوئے کالعدم قرار دیا تھا جس کے بعد این آر او سے فائدہ اٹھانے والے افراد کے مقدمات دوبارہ بحال ہوگئے ہیں۔
ان میں پاکستان کے صدر آصف علی زرداری کے علاوہ پاکستان پیپلز پارٹی اور متحدہ قومی مووممنٹ سے تعلق رکھنے والے وفاقی وزراء بھی شامل ہیں۔
نوازشریف کا کہنا ہے کہ’ ان تمام لوگوں کے خلاف کاروائی ہونی چاہیے جھنوں نے غیر قانونی اور غیر آئینی کام کئے ہیں اور یہ کہ ان کے خلاف کاروائی میں تاخیر نہیں ہونی چاہیے۔‘
ان کا کہنا ہے کہ’ ہم جمہوریت کی حمایت کرنا چاہتے ہیں اور ہماری جو جمہوریت کے لئے حمایت رہی ہے اس کا یہ مطلب نہیں لیا جانا چاہیے کہ ہم اصولوں کی قربانی دیں، کرپشن سے آنکھیں بند کریں، ہم این آر او کی حمایت کریں اور قرضے معاف کرنے والوں کو چھوڑ دیں۔‘
ان کا کہنا ہے کہ این آر او کا فائدہ اٹھانے والے، کرپشن کرنے والے اور قرضے معاف کروانے والوں کو چھوڑ دینا پاکستان کے سترہ کروڑ عوام کے ساتھ زیادتی ہوگی۔
نوازشریف نے مزید کہا کہ سترہویں ترمیم کے خاتمے اور میثاق جہموریت پر عمل کے لئے حکومت نے ہم سے واعدے کئے تھے مگر آج تک وہ وعدے پورے نہیں کئے گئے۔
مسلم لیگ کے سربراہ نواز شریف نے کہا کہ’ اگر حکومت سترہویں ترمیم کا خاتمہ کرتی ہے، میثاق جہمویرت پر عمل کرتی ہے، این آرو کے بارے میں سپریم کورٹ کے فیصلے پر اس کی اصل روح کے مطابق عمل درآمد کرتی ہے اور اچھی حکمرانی فراہم کرتی ہے تو حکومت ہماری حمایت میں کمی نہیں دیکھی گی۔‘
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