Pakistan Muslim League-Functional (PML-F) secretary general Muhammad Ali Durrani. Photo courtesy Facebook/File
LAHORE: A day before an important huddle of the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) in Jati Umra, Raiwind, to hammer out the issue of en mass resignations from the assemblies, Pakistan Muslim League-Functional (PML-F) secretary general Mohammad Ali Durrani called on PDM president Maulana Fazlur Rehman on Thursday night to convey to him a “message” about finding some other way instead of pursuing a collision course that may lead to wrapping up of the “democratic system”.
This is Mr Durrani’s second meeting with the PDM leadership within a week. Earlier, he met PML-N president and Opposition Leader in National Assembly Shehbaz Sharif in Kot Lakhpat jail, asking him to play a role in convincing the opposition not to quit assemblies and initiation of a grand dialogue.
SUKKUR: Supporters of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz gather to welcome party vice president Maryam Nawaz here on Saturday. PPI
LAHORE: For the first time a member of the Sharif family disclosed that PML-N president Shehbaz Sharif might have been the prime minister of the country today instead of Imran Khan had he parted ways with his elder brother Nawaz Sharif (on the wish of the establishment).
The disclosure came from none other than Nawaz’s daughter Maryam Nawaz in the backdrop of “renewed efforts” by the powers that be to rope in the opposition leader in the National Assembly to play his role in bringing the 11-party opposition alliance Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) to the negotiating table.
Sorry scheme of things
December 27, 2020
In the late nineties, I would avidly recommend ‘Sophie’s World’ to college students. This novel on the history of philosophy begins with its protagonist, a Norwegian teenager, receiving an anonymous letter with just three words and a big question mark: “Who are you?” And thus begins an exploration into the mysteries of life and its meaning.
At this time, when the year of the pandemic is about to expire, we seem to be stuck in a pensive mood, searching for the meaning of what is happening to us – in a personal as well as a collective sense. The year is ending but Covid-19 is rising in its second wave. It is hard to be excited and cheerful about the immediate future. The New Year hope of the vaccine is not so valid for poor and deprived countries like Pakistan.