National
January 6, 2021
ISLAMABAD: Only two of nearly 10 advocates of a national dialogue belonging to the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) have so far luckily escaped arrest by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) or any agency on any charge.
Most of them are the members of the PML-N parliamentary advisory group that was constituted by Nawaz Sharif and Shahbaz Sharif when they were behind bars.
The cluster was put together to take key party decisions after consultations, if possible, with the detained leaders. If such a discussion could not be held with the detainees, the group was asked to proceed on its own when the situation demands.
The political maze
January 3, 2021
It is difficult to see the direction in which politics in the country is moving at the present time. In the first place, there are obvious differences within the PDM itself, although on Friday after the PDM meeting in Lahore, Maulana Fazalur Rahman announced that the Long March to Islamabad would go ahead, and that it could indeed even make its destination Rawalpindi instead. This is obviously a very significant statement, given what it points directly to. Meanwhile, within the PDM, there are reports that at least some of the rumoured differences between the PPP and the PML-N have been cleared up, although it is uncertain to what extent this is accurate. Asif Ali Zardari, who has very little to gain by offering resignations from the assemblies given that the PPP would lose its government in Sindh, has persuaded Nawaz Sharif to also follow the as-yet-unclear strategy he says he has in mind. Insiders suggest this may hover around a vote of no-conf
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JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman and PML-F leader Muhammad Ali Durrani address media in Lahore. SCREENGRAB
Muhammad Ali Durrani, secretary general of the Pakistan Muslim League-Functional (PML-F), has said that arrest of opposition leaders by the anti-corruption watchdog is hampering efforts to reach consensus with the opposition parties to bring down political confrontation in the country.
The leader of PML-F, an ally of the PTI-led government in the Centre, made the statement while addressing a joint press conference with JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman in Lahore late Thursday.