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Human Security Gateway: All Updates (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
Less than three months after being formed, Pakistan’s coalition government is in trouble. The leader of one of its constituent parties, Nawaz Sharif of the Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N), is awaiting a decision from the country’s Supreme Court about whether he can run in parliamentary by-elections that began on June 26. The court is packed with judges appointed by President Pervez Musharraf, the ex-general...
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Thaindian News (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
London, July 26 (ANI): Meeting between Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leader and former premier Nawaz Sharif in London is unlikely to take place here. According to The Nation, Sharif is getting ready for a brief visit to some other European country from where he will set off for Pakistan. Prime [...]
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American Congress for Truth (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
comment by Jerry Gordon Yesterday, we posted brief comments on the testimony, last Thursday, of Maajid Nawaz, the former British head of the Islamic extremist group Hizb ut-Tahrir (HT) at the US Senate Homeland Security and Government and Affairs Committee on the roots of violent extremism. Nawaz is fascinating because, he is a third generation [...]
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Thaindian News (Free subscription) | 07/13/2008
Islamabad , July 13 (ANI): Pakistan Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani on Monday phoned Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) head Nawaz Sharif, Awami National Party (ANP) President Asfandyar Wali Khan and Jamiat-e-Ulema Islam-Fazal (JUI-F) leader Maulana Fazlur Rehman to discuss the upcoming cabinet expansion. According to The News, Gilani discussed the issue of PML-Ns inclusion [...]
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Counterterrorism Blog (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Today's hearing by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs is historic for several reasons. First, as I wrote on Monday , it featured Maajid Nawaz, probably the most senior former official in any radical Islamist group to testify before the U.S. Congress since the 9-11 attacks. I will address other aspects of this hearing in future posts, but I wanted to briefly summarize...
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Counterterrorism Blog (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Maajid Nawaz, currently Director of the Quilliam Foundation in the UK, will testify on Thursday before a U.S. Senate committee on the subject of the roots of violent extremism and how to counter it . Mr. Nawaz became famous for publicly renouncing his membership Hizb ut-Tahrir, in which he had become a leader in the UK , and denouncing it as an extremist organization. In a September 2007 op-ed in...
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Pakistan Times! (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
Raiwand: A five-member US delegation led by Assistant Secretary of State Mr. Richard Boucher held a meeting with PML leader Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif here on Tuesday. It was also attended by Punjab Chief Minister Mian Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif, PML leaders Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan and Khawaja Asif.
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The Pakistani Politics (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
From Clinton To Nawaz WWW.AHMEDQURAISHI.COM WASHINGTON, D.C.—This is an excerpt from the book by Strobe Talbot, the former senior U.S. Department of State official, who was in the room with Bill Clinton when the U.S. president received Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif, then the Pakistani prime minister, who came to see Clinton regarding the war in Kargil: ‘Kargil War [...]
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Pakistan Times! (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz PML(N) Quaid Mian Mohammad Nawaz Sharif has said that his party is sincerely cooperating with the government to strengthen democracy in the country. Talking to newsmen at Islamabad Airport before his departure for London today, he said they have strong reasons to support the PPP led government but complained that [...]
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Pakistan Times! (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court here adjourned for two weeks the hearing of the petition filed by the Federation against the election ineligibility of Muslim League-N Quaid, Mian Nawaz Sharif. During SC brief hearing, one objector, Khurram Shah’s lawyer Ahmad Raza Kasuri raised this objection that the Federation has no authority to file petition on [...]
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baithak (Free subscription) | 06/29/2008
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — With Islamic militants tightening their grip around Peshawar, kidnapping residents and threatening the city itself, the new coalition government of Pakistan delivered its first military response to the Islamists on Saturday. The action was limited, with security forces shelling territory outside Peshawar held by an extremist leader. Army forces were not used, and the intent apparently...
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Timpu (Free subscription) | 06/28/2008
Lahore, Jun 14: Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was aware of the situation in Kargil in 1999 through the then Defence Secretary who had briefed him on the situation, a senior Pakistan Army official has said. Click Here To Read the Full Post
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Timpu (Free subscription) | 06/28/2008
London, Jun 28: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif has said that Pakistan should foster peaceful ties with India on the basis of equity, justice and mutual respect. Speaking at a two-day Indo-Pakistan conference here, Sharif said, “Pakistan has always viewed relations with India as extremely important, not only for the peace of the [...]
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Pakistan Times! (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
CHARSADDA: Pakistan Muslim League-N Quaid Mian Nawaz Sharif has said that he and his party neither accept the PCO judges nor would appear before them. Mian Nawaz Sharif condoled the death of Sangeen Wali, brother of Awami National Party (ANP) President Asfandyar Wali Khan at Charsadda Wali Bagh and offered Fatheha. Talking to media, Nawaz [...]
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baithak (Free subscription) | 06/25/2008
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistan is in a leaderless drift four months after elections, according to Western diplomats and military officials, Pakistani politicians and Afghan officials who are increasingly worried that no one is really in charge. The sense of drift is the subject of almost every columnist in the English-language press in Pakistan, and anxiety over the lack of leadership and the weakness...
