Maryam driven to BB s mausoleum by Bilawal to pay her respects
The PML-N leader also visited the grave of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
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KARACHI:
A day after the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) hosted the rally in Garhi Khuda Bakhsh, Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz Vice-President Maryam Nawaz visited the Bhutto family graveyard and prayed for the departed souls of
former prime ministers Benazir Bhutto and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and other family members.
PPP Chairperson Bilawal Bhutto accompanied Maryam during the visit to the Bhutto family mausoleum where Aseefa Bhutto received the PML-N delegation.
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According to reports, the delegation laid a floral wreath at the tomb of Benazir, her father and brothers.
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CHAKWAL: Lashing out at the opposition parties, Prime Minister Imran Khan has accused the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) of propagating Indian agenda by launching a malicious campaign against the Pakistan Army.
Addressing a ceremony here on Saturday, he said this was for the first time that Pakistan’s opposition was targeting the army in this way.
“General Musharraf used to be criticised because he had assumed a political role after becoming the head of the country. But I am sorry to say that the language being used in criticising the army these days is the same which is being used by the propaganda machine of India,” Mr Khan said.
th birth anniversary of the founder of Pakistan Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah today on 25
th December with zeal and fervor.
The Creation of Pakistan in a short period of 7 years after the historic Lahore resolution on March 23, 1940 was a miracle of the 20
th century. The Muslims of India suffering under the yoke of British-Hindu combine since 1757 loved Jinnah and out of reverence named him Quaid-e-Azam.
Man of steel nerves and strong conviction, Jinnah was a man of taste, he spoke eloquently and dressed immaculately. None could outclass him in arguments.
The illiterate people flocking to his public meetings listened to his speeches delivered in English with rapt attention without understanding what he was saying. Their simple reply was, ‘whatever he was saying must be correct and for our good’.
Pakistan has no clear path out of its dynastic politics
Unless compelled by circumstances, why would one change a norm that largely works in their favour? Former Pakistan Prime Nawaz Sharif with his daughter, Maryam. | Hannah McKay/Reuters
Recent events have brought concerns around dynasticism in Pakistan’s electoral politics to the fore once again. In reviewing the issue’s causes and consequences, it is important to consider both dynastic leadership succession and local candidate selection.
As research by Hassan Javid, Farooq Naseer and Ali Cheema has shown for the case of Pakistan’s Punjab, dynastic candidates – ie those who followed a relative in politics – accounted for approximately two-thirds of the elected legislators and around half of the top three contestants in Pakistan’s National Assembly elections in the province between 1985 and 2008. This is coupled with the fact that the share of dynastic politicians in the Assembly has remained r