ISLAMABAD: Awami Muslim League (AML) leader Sheikh Rashid hailed the accountability court’s decision of indictment of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, his daughter Maryam and her husband MNA Capt (retd) Safdar on Thursday. Following the indictment of the three in the Avenfield properties case, Rashid welcomed the witnessing of such verdicts with open arms and […]
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Avenfield case: Former PM Nawaz, Maryam and Safdar indicted in accountability court
ISLAMABAD: Maryam Nawaz, daughter of ex-prime minister Nawaz Sharif, and her husband Capt (retd) Safdar on Thursday morning appeared in an an accountability court in respect to the hearing of the National Accountability Bureau’s (NAB) references against them. During the hearing that went underway, Maryam and Captain (retd) Safdar’s counsel, Amjad Pervez, requested accountability judge […]
261 lawmakers suspended by ECP include names of Capt Safdar, Ayesha Gulalai
ISLAMABAD: 261 parliamentarians were suspended of their membership on Monday over their failure to submit statements of assets and liabilities to the electoral watchdog, said Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) reports. Earlier, the ECP had issued circulars to the lawmakers under Sub-Section 42A of the Representation of People Act (RoPA) to submit their financial details […]
Nawaz Sharif distances himself in response to Safdar’s Anti-Ahmadi tirade
ISLAMABAD: PML-N president Nawaz Sharif has distanced his party two days right after Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi detached himself from the anti-Ahmadi tirade by retired captain Mohammad Safdar in the National Assembly. “I declare it in categorical and unequivocal terms that all minorities living in Pakistan enjoy complete fundamental rights, including protection to their […]
What lies ahead for Ahmadis
In my article last week, I argued that my religion or religious beliefs, or lack thereof, are not the business of the state, and I quoted Jinnah’s promise made explicitly to all people of Pakistan on 11 August 1947 to this effect. In response, a number of readers wrote in to say that Pakistan was […]