Relations between Nawaz Sharif and Najam Sethi were severely strained in late 1992 when TFT became critical of Mr Sharif’s policies, carried articles alleging wrongdoing by the Sharif family and launched the satirical column titled “Ittefaqnama” on the back page. The then DG-IB Brig Imtiaz Billa and DIG Police Rana Maqbool in Punjab were accordingly deputed to “teach Sethi a lesson”. While both gentlemen went about their assignment assiduously, Mr Sethi and Ms Mohsin survived the threats and income tax notices because Mr Sharif fell from grace in early 1993. In due course, Rana Maqbool apologised to Mr Sethi (“I had no choice”….”I was only doing a job”…) while Mr Sharif unexpectedly arrived at Mr Sethi’s front door one day in 1994 saying “I have come to apologise….I had no idea of what my people did to you”. In due course, with everything forgiven and forgotten, Mr Sharif began to cultivate Mr Sethi through the good offices of a mutual friend-associate. REFERENCE: Truth will out Posted on Friday, June 11, 1999 in The Friday Times (Editorial) http://www.najamsethi.com/truth-will-out-3/

Mr Sharif and Mr Sethi retained a measure of mutual warmth after the former became prime minister in February 1997. Indeed, on at least two occasions, once over a one-on-one breakfast meeting in March and again over another one-on-one lunch in April 1997 at the PM House in Islamabad, Mr Sharif asked Mr Sethi to give up journalism and join his team at the “highest level”. But Mr Sethi politely declined, arguing that he could better demonstrate his “friendship” for Mr Sharif by remaining out of the political fray and commenting on Mr Sharif’s policies and conduct objectively from the sidelines of independent journalism.

Mr Sethi’s relationship with Mr Sharif began to sour in May 1997 when TFT wrote editorials against Mr Sharif’s attempt to undermine the judiciary, in particular the March 1996 decisions in the famous Judges Case. TFT then went on to support Chief Justice Sajjad Ali Shah’s endeavours to strengthen the supreme court against the executive. And when the battle royale between Justice Shah/President Leghari and Mr Sharif erupted with full force in October 1997, TFT made no bones about opposing Mr Sharif’s attempts to become all powerful.

As usually, Sethi was always siding with the establishment army/judiciary against elected prime ministers.

Sethi works for both USA and Pakistani establishment.

Sometimes double dealers do get into trouble.

Why is ISI not confirming my husband’s arrest, asks Jugnu
ISLAMABAD: Holding Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his brother Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif responsible for “abducting” her husband, Jugnu Mohsin, wife of Najam Sethi, profusely accused the government of committing “human rights violation”.

“I demand of the prime minister to allow me to see Najam with my own eyes,” said Jugnu while addressing a press conference here on Tuesday. She said by “abducting” Najam Sethi, one of the senior-most journalists of the country, the government has violated Human Rights and acted against the norms of democracy and civil society.

“The government is making Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and Army controversial by dragging it in the matter,” said Jugnu, clad in a white dress. “Why is ISI not confirming officially the arrest of my husband?” she asked and claimed the ISI was not behind her husband’s “abduction”.

Jugnu, who pledged to fight a battle to expose the government in its endeavour to give a lesson to the press, said: “Najam is a patriot and was so declared in an appreciation certificate from the National Defence College.”

She said she went to the court twice and prominent lawyers Khalid Ranjha and Asma Jehangir represented her but “on both the occasions I returned with empty hands.” She appealed to all the governments in the world and Human Rights organisations, and friends and colleagues at home to help her at this critical juncture of her life.

She narrated her story about the raid on her house last Saturday when Najam Sethi was arrested and she was tied up and locked in the dressing room. She termed the attitude of the information minister “highly hypocritical” and said that the whole thing was not linked to Najam’s speech in India, “but to his interview to BBC, his crusade for accountability and his boldness to speak the truth”.

She said Ehtesab Bureau chief Saifur Rehman telephoned Najam much before his speech in India and threatened him with dire consequences for what he was doing. “Najam was doing nothing but speaking the truth,” Jugnu said. She said giving interview to BBC is not a crime in any way as when BBC ran the documentary, “Princess and the playboy”, it was appreciated by the then opposition led by Nawaz Sharif. She asked: “Why is now a similar investigative report being called a conspiracy against Pakistan?”

Jugnu Mohsin, said Governor of Punjab Shahid Hamid told her to contact DG, ISI and also gave her his telephone number. “Hamid told me that Najam was in Islamabad.” “I was asked to contact a Grade-19 officer, who told me to send items of daily use, medicines and other things,” said Jugnu. “When one of my relatives contacted the man, he refused to let him meet Najam and also declined to receive the bag full of items of daily use.”

May 1999
http://199.238.130.165/news/May_99/051299.html

Omar Waraich @OmarWaraich
Controversial 1996 BBC doc ‘The Princess & the Playboy’- ft BB, AZ, IK, YRG, Leghari, Najam Sethi, Mumtaz Bhutto http://youtu.be/_YRY0N0H49M
2:18 AM – 14 Oct 12

SyedaQudsia
#Pakistan should know that Najam Sethi is part of the New America Foundation think tank: http://t.co/IOXJzrMVgx #PTI #Vote4None #CIA #US”

Najam Sethi today says that one of his biggest regrets was being part of the interim government post 2nd BB term. Still, what he says in the video is incriminating and he cannot just say that he didn’t mean any of that.

The Ehtisaab Commission was formed by Nawaz Sharif under the infamous Justice Qayyum to SOLELY hold the corruption scandals against BB and Zardari. The Supreme Court found the Commission corrupt. To quote a source

“In its detailed judgement on the appeals of Benazir Bhutto and Asif Zardari against their convictions by Ehtesab Bench in the SGS corruption case, the Supreme Court has unanimously ruled that the trial was not fair and the judge who presided over the Bench was biased.”

This judgment was in the Musharraf era when BB was exiled. I think the Zardari BB scandals(alleged) should be more reflective on the tacit collusion and failure of the judicial and executive systems along with military and its proxies in the media.

Can somebody not translate this all in URDU and release it in Pakistan so that people can understand.

People must see real ugly face of Najam Sethi, Najam the Shady!

the fake liberals like najam sethi r no less dangerous than the right wing conservative mullahs. GHQ being the common link b/w them.

Najam Sethi’s wife, Jugnu Mohsin, insults sacred memory of Shaheed Benazir Bhutto while Raza Rumi laughs – by Ada Khakwani

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