Sharif Badmash: An Overview of Corruption of Nawaz Sharif and Shahbaz Sharif

By: SAJJAD on September 2, 2008

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TRUTH ABOUT HOW NAWAZ SHARIF TREATED THE MEDIA WHILST IN POWER

One of the highest profile harassment was the victimization and harassment of journalists who had cooperated in the production of the British Broadcasting Corporation’s (BBC) documentary “Correspondent” dealing with corruption in the government and business concerns of then Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and allegations of money-laundering by his family.

The intimidation of journalists became public when intelligence agents in Lahore picked up Mehmood Ali Khan Lodhi, of The News, Lahore, on May 2. Lodhi was released after two days of interrogation on May 4, after journalists boycotted the coverage of the Punjab provincial assembly to protest Lodhi’s abduction and demanded information about his whereabouts. There was no official explanation for his illegal detention.

According to Lodhi, the interrogators wanted to know details of his involvement with a BBC team. Lodhi said the BBC had contacted him and he gave them the address, telephone numbers and directions to the house of Yousuf Aziz, Sharif’s estranged cousin. Lodhi said that the interrogators were anxious to find the motives behind the documentary. He added that during the making of the documentary, he had received death threats for working with BBC.

On May 4, just after midnight, Hussain Haqqani, spokesperson of the opposition alliance and columnist for The Friday Times and the daily Jang was taken into the custody of Pakistan’s Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on corruption and embezzlement charges. However, the real reason for his detention was to punish him for the interview he gave to programme “Correspondent”.

The same day, Ejaz Haider, a news editor of The Friday Times, received an anonymous note warning him to install bulletproof windows in his car. Haider was not home at the time the note was delivered to Haider’s 7-year-old son. Haider believed he was targeted because he worked for The Friday Times, whose owner, Najam Sethi had played a significant role in facilitating the production of “Correspondent”.

Sethi had to bear the full force of the government’s anger for his role in organising the visit and for being interviewed for the programme. According to press reports, senior government officials had cautioned him not to work with the BBC team, terming it an attempt to destabilise the country and overthrow the government. Sethi said he had received numerous threatening phone calls; he feared that his house and office would be attacked and he would be arrested.

His fears proved to be well founded; on May 8, about fifteen armed men arrived in vehicles bearing government registration plates stormed Sethi’s house at around 3:00 am and started beating Sethi’s two personal guards posted at the gate. They then entered the house and banged at the bedroom door. As soon as Sethi opened the door they started beating him. His wife, Jugnu Mohsin, was also beaten and locked in a room and warned not to raise the alarm. The officials became abusive when she asked to see the arrest warrants.

The official reason given for his arrest was a speech he had delivered at the India-Pakistan Friendship Society on April 30 in New Delhi on problems facing Pakistan. The official charge did not have much credibility as Sethi had delivered the same speech earlier to the armed forces personnel at the National Defence College. A government spokesman also alleged that Sethi had been arrested for his anti-state activities and links with Indian intelligence agents.

Sethi was detained for several days at an undisclosed location. The police even refused to acknowledge that he had been arrested, although information was leaked to the press that he was in the custody of military’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency.

On May 12, the Lahore High Court rejected a petition by Jugnu Mohsin to produce Sethi before the court because he was being held by military intelligence. On May 13, authorities seized copies of The Friday Times.

On May 17, the Supreme Court ordered that Sethi’s family be allowed to meet with him. The Supreme Court ruled that hearings to determine whether the ISI could arrest Sethi under the Army Act would start on May 31.

On June 1, the ISI transferred Sethi to police custody, after an official criminal complaint or First Information Report (FIR) was filed against him under sections 123-A (”Condemnation of the Creation of the State and Advocacy of Abolition of its Sovereignty”), 124-A (sedition), and 153-A (”Promoting Enmity Between Different Groups”) of Pakistan’s penal code, and Section 13 of the Prevention of Anti-National Activities Act of 1974.

However, on June 2, during the hearing of Sethi’s bail application filed by Mohsin, the attorney general of Pakistan made the surprise announcement that the government had decided to drop all charges against Sethi. The attorney general, however, added the government reserved the right to start new proceeding against Sethi. He was released the same day.

Even after his release, the government continued to harass Sethi. On June 10, Sethi accused the government of using the income tax department to intimidate him and his wife. He said the government had issued over two dozen notices against him, his wife, The Friday Times and Vanguard Books, his publishing company. His wife’s bank account was frozen and money was transferred to the tax department. The income tax department reopened settled income tax assessments and had laid claim to, or “attached”, his family’s house.

On June 23, officials of Federal Immigration Authority (FIA) at the Lahore International Airport prevented Sethi from going to London to receive Amnesty International’s Special Award for Human Rights Journalism Under Threat. Sethi was informed that his name had been placed on the Exit Control List on June 2, which barred him from travelling abroad.
The next day, a petition was filed by Syed Zafar Ali Shah, a member of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s political party to disqualify Sethi from voting or running for any elected office. However, on October 6, the Chief Election Commissioner of Pakistan dismissed a petition. The Chief Election Commissioner did not elaborate on his decision.

TRUTH ABOUT HOW NAWAZ SHARIF TREATED THE MEDIA WHILST IN POWER

EVENTS OF 1999

The journalists of today hypocrites like Hamid Mir need to wake up and expose the attitude of the democratic governments in the past rather than staying quite

Nawaz Sharif tried to subdue the Jang Group, the country’s largest media group, and to punish Najam Sethi, editor of The Friday Times, and other journalists, who had cooperated in the production of a BBC documentary investigating corruption involving the family and business concerns of the then prime minister.

Victimisation of The Jang Group

NAWAZ SHARIFS action against the Jang Group started in December 1998. On December 14, the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) raided the Rawalpindi office of the daily Jang. They demanded to check the newsprint quotas and store records and harassed journalists and other staff present at the office. However, the newspapers’ staff and office bearers of the workers union resisted this attempt and forced the FIA officials to withdraw from the premises.

The government claimed the raid was a routine examination of the accounts and audit of the group was being conducted because of discrepancies in the profit declared to the income tax department and to the Audit Bureau of Circulation (ABC).
The Jang group spokesman contested the government’s view and maintained that the tax raids were conducted to harass and intimidate the group and its journalists to stop writing stories, reports and investigative stories critical of the government. The spokesman added that government demands included the dismissal of 16 senior journalists including Maleeha Lodhi (Editor, The News, Rawalpindi), Irshad A Haqqani (Editor, Jang, Lahore) and Kamran Khan (The News, Karachi).

The spokesman for the newspaper group also disclosed that senior government officials had asked Jang group newspapers not to carry a news story concerning the non-payment of a US$ 18.5 million loan by the family of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif that had been published by the British newspaper The Observer a day earlier. The spokesman claimed officials tried to block the publication of the story and threatened that things would get “real tough” if the story was published. The story was reprinted in a number of Pakistani newspapers, including those belonging to the Jang group.

In retaliation, the government stopped advertising in Jang Group newspapers and filed claims against the group for customs duties on shipments of newsprint amounting to 1.6 billion rupees (US$ 31.4 million). The government also issued notices of tax evasion against the group and its owner, Mir Shakilur Rehman, amounting to two billion rupees (US$ 40 million).

On January 28, Mir Shakilur Rehman held a press conference during which he played discussions with Senator Saifur Rehman, head of the government’s Accountability Bureau and a close associate of the then Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, in which Senator Rehman asked for the dismissal of a number of senior journalists. The Senator also demanded a say in hiring journalists in key position. The senator was heard promising Mir Shakilur Rehman, “If we see any positive change in your attitude, we will settle your problems in a positive manner.” Mir Shakilur Rehman rejected the threats as well as the inducements offered by the senator.

On January 30, the police registered cases of sedition against daily Jang and two other Urdu dailies Amn and Parcham for publishing a political advertisement that “created hatred in the public by virtue of seditious contents.”

In an attempt to force the closure of the publications, the government froze the bank accounts of the Jang Group and confiscated newspapers’ newsprint, and stopped newsprint shipments at the port of Karachi.

On February 1, the Supreme Court ordered the government to release the newsprint. However, the FIA in Rawalpindi defied the court order and commandeered trucks of newsprint meant for Jang publications.

A group of journalists who went to the office of the FIA to discuss the release of newsprint were abused, pushed and beaten, resulting in injury to three journalists: Mariana Baabar, Shakil Sheikh and Rana Mubashir. The same day a number of journalists were beaten by the police at the rally organised by the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ), to protest the victimisation of the Jang Group.

Journalists from the Jang and The News responded to police violence and the seizure of newsprint, by blocking the city’s main Muree Road for nearly five hours, while heavy contingents of police patrolled the area. The next day police registered cases against eighty journalists for staging the demonstration.

On February 3, Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) officials and the police manhandled staff of the daily Ausaf, Islamabad. The editor of Ausaf, Hamid Mir, said that they were punished for providing newsprint to the Jang Group. Senator Saifur Rehman reportedly threatened Hamid Mir with closure of his newspaper for providing support to the Jang Group. Telephones of Ausaf’s Karachi bureau were disconnected making it difficult for the bureau to send news to its Islamabad office.

On February 4, the Supreme Court again ordered the government to release 200 of the 1,093 reels of impounded newsprint because if newsprint was not released it would not be possible to publish the Jang Group newspapers. After the Supreme Court ruling, the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) and the police cordoned off the daily Jang’s printing press in Karachi and tried to stop the printing of the newspapers. They took away the truck loaded with eight reels of newsprint belonging to the Jang Group, which was later after the intervention of Senior District Magistrate (SDM).

FIA officials said that they had received orders not to allow the newsprint to the press. The vehicle leaving the press with copies of the group’s evening newspaper, Awam, was stopped by police and only allowed to leave when the editor of Awam threatened action against the policemen.

Police parked a trailer in front of the main door of the printing press and checked all cars coming towards the press and harassed the staff of the printing press. The editorial and technical staff had to rush to the press several times to argue with the police and FIA men to stop the harassment.

One positive aspect of this unfortunate act of government arrogance was the universal condemnation of government action by journalists, editors, publishers as well as national and international media organisations The government realised the operation to tame the Jang Group had backfired, and after nearly two months of hostility a settlement was reached on February 7 at a meeting between Mir Shakilur Rehman and representatives of the government.

The agreement led to the release of the newsprint, the withdrawal of Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) and police personnel from outside the group’s offices, and the unfreezing of bank accounts. The agreement led to the payment of salaries of the workers and the resumption of normal publication of Jang publications.

BBC documentary

The other high profile episode was the victimisation and harassment of journalists who had cooperated in the production of the British Broadcasting Corporation’s (BBC) documentary “Correspondent” dealing with corruption in the government and business concerns of then Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and allegations of money-laundering by his family.

The intimidation of journalists became public when intelligence agents in Lahore picked up Mehmood Ali Khan Lodhi, of The News, Lahore, on May 2. Lodhi was released after two days of interrogation on May 4, after journalists boycotted the coverage of the Punjab provincial assembly to protest Lodhi’s abduction and demanded information about his whereabouts. There was no official explanation for his illegal detention.

According to Lodhi, the interrogators wanted to know details of his involvement with a BBC team. Lodhi said the BBC had contacted him and he gave them the address, telephone numbers and directions to the house of Yousuf Aziz, Sharif’s estranged cousin. Lodhi said that the interrogators were anxious to find the motives behind the documentary. He added that during the making of the documentary, he had received death threats for working with BBC.

On May 4, just after midnight, Hussain Haqqani, spokesperson of the opposition alliance and columnist for The Friday Times and the daily Jang was taken into the custody of Pakistan’s Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on corruption and embezzlement charges. However, the real reason for his detention was to punish him for the interview he gave to programme “Correspondent”.

The same day, Ejaz Haider, a news editor of The Friday Times, received an anonymous note warning him to install bulletproof windows in his car. Haider was not home at the time the note was delivered to Haider’s 7-year-old son. Haider believed he was targeted because he worked for The Friday Times, whose owner, Najam Sethi had played a significant role in facilitating the production of “Correspondent”.

Sethi had to bear the full force of the government’s anger for his role in organising the visit and for being interviewed for the programme. According to press reports, senior government officials had cautioned him not to work with the BBC team, terming it an attempt to destabilise the country and overthrow the government. Sethi said he had received numerous threatening phone calls; he feared that his house and office would be attacked and he would be arrested.

His fears proved to be well founded; on May 8, about fifteen armed men arrived in vehicles bearing government registration plates stormed Sethi’s house at around 3:00 am and started beating Sethi’s two personal guards posted at the gate. They then entered the house and banged at the bedroom door. As soon as Sethi opened the door they started beating him. His wife, Jugnu Mohsin, was also beaten and locked in a room and warned not to raise the alarm. The officials became abusive when she asked to see the arrest warrants.

The official reason given for his arrest was a speech he had delivered at the India-Pakistan Friendship Society on April 30 in New Delhi on problems facing Pakistan. The official charge did not have much credibility as Sethi had delivered the same speech earlier to the armed forces personnel at the National Defence College. A government spokesman also alleged that Sethi had been arrested for his anti-state activities and links with Indian intelligence agents.

Sethi was detained for several days at an undisclosed location. The police even refused to acknowledge that he had been arrested, although information was leaked to the press that he was in the custody of military’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency.
On May 12, the Lahore High Court rejected a petition by Jugnu Mohsin to produce Sethi before the court because he was being held by military intelligence. On May 13, authorities seized copies of The Friday Times.

On May 17, the Supreme Court ordered that Sethi’s family be allowed to meet with him. The Supreme Court ruled that hearings to determine whether the ISI could arrest Sethi under the Army Act would start on May 31.

On June 1, the ISI transferred Sethi to police custody, after an official criminal complaint or First Information Report (FIR) was filed against him under sections 123-A (”Condemnation of the Creation of the State and Advocacy of Abolition of its Sovereignty”), 124-A (sedition), and 153-A (”Promoting Enmity Between Different Groups”) of Pakistan’s penal code, and Section 13 of the Prevention of Anti-National Activities Act of 1974.

However, on June 2, during the hearing of Sethi’s bail application filed by Mohsin, the attorney general of Pakistan made the surprise announcement that the government had decided to drop all charges against Sethi. The attorney general, however, added the government reserved the right to start new proceeding against Sethi. He was released the same day.

Even after his release, the government continued to harass Sethi. On June 10, Sethi accused the government of using the income tax department to intimidate him and his wife. He said the government had issued over two dozen notices against him, his wife, The Friday Times and Vanguard Books, his publishing company. His wife’s bank account was frozen and money was transferred to the tax department. The income tax department reopened settled income tax assessments and had laid claim to, or “attached”, his family’s house.

On June 23, officials of Federal Immigration Authority (FIA) at the Lahore International Airport prevented Sethi from going to London to receive Amnesty International’s Special Award for Human Rights Journalism Under Threat. Sethi was informed that his name had been placed on the Exit Control List on June 2, which barred him from travelling abroad.
The next day, a petition was filed by Syed Zafar Ali Shah, a member of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s political party to disqualify Sethi from voting or running for any elected office. However, on October 6, the Chief Election Commissioner of Pakistan dismissed a petition. The Chief Election Commissioner did not elaborate on his decision.

Arrests and attacks on journalists

While government action against the Jang Group and Najam Sethi received the publicity they deserved, there were a number of other cases of threats, arrests and attacks on journalists throughout the year.

On January 7, Syed Rasool Rasa, correspondent of the Urdu daily Khabrain in Malakand district of the North West Frontier Province, was arrested for reporting the arrest of a member of the provincial assembly. He was kept in detention for six days during which he was mistreated and beaten to force him to issue a denial.

On January 12, Waliullah Saleem, director of the Peshawar based Sahaar News Agency, was threatened that he would be killed if he continued to speak out against the Taliban. He was harassed, followed and chased by unidentified people forcing him to leave Peshawar and hide in Islamabad.

On January 30, three unidentified men armed with a pistol and Kalashnikov rifle ransacked the offices of the daily Khyber Mail International, in Peshawar, the capital of the North West Frontier Province. The attackers severely beat the messenger Mohammad Javed and tied him up. They smashed the furniture, fax machine and computer monitors, and took away telephones.

On February 4, Sindh police threatened Mazhar Abbas, chief reporter of The Star and former president and general secretary of the Karachi Union of Journalists (KUJ) for articles written by him that were critical of the police. The threat was contained in a letter to the newspaper by the police. The letter said “in case the scribe is not checked, very stringent action will be taken against him under the law” and added that if the police could take care of terrorists in Karachi, they could deal with “fortune seekers” like the journalist Abbas.

On March 24, police assaulted Meruddin, of the Sindhi newspaper Kawish, and Sarwar Jamali, of the Sindhi daily Koshish, and ransacked their houses in Hyderabad. The journalists alleged that this action was taken at the orders of the then provincial minister Ismail Rahoo and his brother Aslam Rahoo. The two journalists alleged that they were beaten up and their family members maltreated in order to stop publication of stories against the brothers.

On April 2, the Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) arrested the owner and chief executive of The Frontier Post, Rehmat Shah Afridi, on the charge of possession of drugs. According to the ANF, Afridi was arrested after a tip that he would try to smuggle hashish out of the country. The ANF alleged he was arrested at 3:45 am while driving along with his two guards in his car containing 20 kilograms of hashish, two licensed Kalashinkovs and a pistol. The ANF also alleged that during the preliminary investigation, Afridi revealed the whereabouts of 620 kilograms of hashish hidden in a truck parked in Faisalabad in Punjab province, which also led to the arrest of the truck’s driver and a passenger. However, Afridi’s family has alleged that this is an attempt to gag the press. Memoodullah Afridi alleged that his father had been receiving threats and was expecting something like this to happen.

Mir Shakilur Rehman, president of the All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS), expressed concern over the arrest. He said that the arrest of a newspaper owner on such a serious charge was a matter of grave concern for the entire newspaper fraternity. APNS appealed to the government to constitute an independent inquiry commission to investigate the charges levelled against Afridi and to provide him with access to legal assistance and medical facilities as he was suffering from a heart ailment.

On May 5, unidentified intruders burnt the car of Imtiaz Alam of The News at his house in Lahore. Alam had been receiving threats from unknown persons. The intruders moved the car from Alam’s garage onto the road where they set it on fire while he was asleep. One of his neighbours saw his car in flames and informed the police. By the time police reached the location, the car was completely burnt.

In May, during the government’s confrontation with Najam Sethi, copies of the London-based weekly The Economist were seized because it had an article criticising the government’s assaults on the press.

On May 13, armed assailants shot and injured Rana Sajid Iqbal, the editor of the daily Nawai Sharrer, in Sargodha in Punjab province. He was shot and injured by two bullets and received seven dagger wounds in an attack as he was returning home. Iqbal’s brother alleged that the editor was attacked at the orders of Chaudary Abdul Hameed, a member of the National Assembly (MNA), and the MNA’s son, Hamid Hameed, the mayor of the city. The editor’s brother said that, a few days ago, the MNA had threatened the editor of dire consequences for publishing a news story against him and the mayor.

On May 19 in Lahore, police assaulted a photographer and a reporter covering a funeral procession of four alleged robbers who were killed in a police encounter. Naseer Chaudary, a photographer of the daily evening newspaper Naya Akhbar was taking photographs of the procession from the tractor-trolley when the police asked him to stop taking photographs and to clear the scene. When Chaudhry refused, the police beat him and pushed him from the trolley, fracturing his leg. When Zahid Ali Khan, a reporter of the daily Khabrain tried to help his colleague, the police also beat him.

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By: SAJJAD on August 31, 2008

NAWAZ SHARIF EXPOSED

Rehmat Shah Afridi criticises Nawaz

Daily Times Monitor

“LAHORE: Frontier Post Chief Editor Rehmat Shah Afridi criticised Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif in a TV interview on Tuesday and showed documents that he said were proofs of the former prime minister’s corruption.
The veteran journalist claimed that the PML-N chief had once earned Rs 330 million in a day by allotting 24 sugar plants to various people. He also alleged that Nawaz wanted to give the contract for developing the Gwadar Port to a defaulted American company in 1999. Afridi said Nawaz had received a huge sum of money from Osama Bin Laden in Madina in the name of jihad. He told Osama he would assist Gulbadin Hekmatyar and Haji Zaman, but the warlords did not receive a penny.

Nawaz brought to Pakistan Rs 1.49 billion of the sum and used Rs 270 or Rs 290 million of it against Benazir Bhutto in the 1990 no-confidence move.
Jamaat-e-Islami chief Qazi Hussain Ahmad also knew about this money, Afridi said.
He said Nawaz had betrayed and robbed all his friends and would “throw [Pakistan People’s Party Co-chairman] Asif Ali Zardari across River Ravi” when he found the opportunity.

Afridi said Nawaz came to his house in 1999 and called him his brother. Nawaz also called Muttahida Qaumi Movement chief Altaf Hussain his brother, but set up military courts in Karachi on the pretext of a rape case, he said.
He said he had said in a report he published that there were more rapes in Punjab during Shabaz Sharif’s government than in Sindh and therefore it was Punjab that needed military courts.”

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Mian Nawaz Sharif, during his tenure as Chief Minister Punjab from 1988-90, deprived the provincial departments of Rs. 15.35 billion.

The Auditor General Report released in the year 1988 reported that Mian Nawaz Sharif, misusing his authority as Chief Minister Punjab, issued directives which resulted into direct malpractice of Rs. 35 billion.

The report said that the Chief Minister Secretariat had been turned out to be a hub of corrupt practices and Nawaz Sharif wasted the public money like an ’emperor’ that resulted into huge fiscal deficit of the province.

The Auditor General Report released in the year 1986 said that the then Chief Minister Nawaz Sharif had used Rs. 120 Crore for malpractices in only one year.
Nawaz Sharif allotted 3000 precious LDA plots among his favorites due to which the provincial assets suffered loss of billions of rupees.

Nawaz Sharif ordered the CBR to issue several CBRs due to which got Rs. 40 Crore.
Mian Nawaz Sharif was the lead character of the Cooperative and Financial Institutions Scam, which deprived the retired employees, orphans, widows, and poor of their total assets amounting to Rs. 17 billion.

Nawaz Sharif released Rs. 1.2 million from his discretionary grant in the year 1985-86 while Rs. 18950,000 were released in 1986-87, Rs. 18990,000 were used in 1987-88 while another Rs. 18870,000 were distributed among his cronies.

The first tenure of Mian Nawaz Sharif as Prime Minister in the year 1990 saw another reign of loot and plunder. During this period Mian Nawaz Shairf obtained Rs. 3 billion loan from Banks through his influence against inadequate guarantees. According to the details Rs.1.5 billion loan was obtained against Ittefaq Foundries, Rs.302 million were obtained for Brothers Sugar Mills, Rs.92 million for Brothers Textile, Rs. 392 million for Brothers Steel Mills, Rs.102 million for Ramzan Sugar Mills and Khalid Siraj Textiles each, Rs.385 million for Ittefaq Sugar Mills, Rs.368 million for Ittefaq Textiles and Rs.239 million were loaned to Ittefaq Brothers. Due to the malpractice the national wealth was used for establishing personal empire while the country’s economy was facing huge disaster. This loan was equivalent to the total internal loan obtained by the government of Pakistan.

In a letter to the then president Muhammad Rafiq Tarer, the then Additional Director General FIA Rehman Malik also leveled serious corruption charges against Nawaz Sharif who was sitting Prime Minister.

The charges are based on investigation also include money laundering of billions of dollars; Wheat Import Scam; allotment of contract of Motorway to Daewoo Company; Grabbing of heavy loans despite being defaulter; Sharif family’s UK hidden business; Commission in privatization of MCB; etc.

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Exposing Nawaz Sharif’s corruption

The following is an excellent programme exposing some of the corruption conducted by Nawaz Sharif by the host of DM Digital, Farhan Aslam, who also used to work for ARY Digital a few years ago.

The report has been divided into six segments. I will offer a short summary of the discussion, followed by the clips themselves.

Brief summary

Nawaz Sharif’s only agenda was to make money. In order to achieve this goal, he formed/changed laws and policies for his personal benefit and expanded his business empire by misusing his authority as Prime Minister.
Interestingly enough and ironically, the PPP played a major role in exposing the corruption of Nawaz Sharif and his family. The Jamaat-e-Islami had also levelled a number of corruption allegations upon Nawaz Sharif. As we know, later Sharif and his cronies also played a role in exposing the corruption of Benazir Bhutto and her PPP. In other words, both Sharif and Bhutto have been busy over the years actively accusing each other of committing corruption.

Nawaz Sharif is widely acknowledged to be a highly incompetent person, with a mediocre I.Q. level. The brain behind him was that of his late “Abba Jee” (‘daddy’) – the mastermind and the main decision maker behind the scene.

In order to consolidate and attain more power, N. Sharif attacked every individual and institutions he felt could get in the way challenge his authority. In order to get rid of the then Chief Justice Sajjad Ali Shah, who was despised by Sharif, the later created divisions among the judges to make life difficult for the Chief Justice. A group of judges refused to acknowledge Shah as the Chief Justice and things got so bad that a number of junior judges put hurdles in the way of the Chief Justice in order to make it difficult for him to carry out his duties. Eventually, Sharif ordered his thugs to attack the Supreme Court in order to prevent the Chief Justice from giving a ruling against him.
The police did nothing to stop Sharif’s thugs as they attacked and entered the Supreme Court. The judges inside the building barely managed to escape. The thugs, led by Sajjad Naseem and Mushtaq Tahir, Nawaz Sharif’s political secretaries, entered the court chanting anti-Sajjad slogans and destroyed the furniture.

Next, consider Nawaz Sharif’s relationship with the press and media. Two examples will suffice. On 8th May 1999, Najam Sethi, a prominent journalist of Pakistan, was arrested by the police on the orders of Sharif. Sethi has committed the crime of annoying Nawaz Sharif by writing a critical essay against him. The police broke into Sethi’s house at around 2 am and beat him up in his bedroom in front of his wife, after which he was transported off to a secret location. The police trashed Sethi’s house, broke the furniture and beat him up quite bad. Sethi was only released after a lot of international pressure had built up against Sharif. Sharif also demanded the Jang Group to get rid of all the journalists who were critical of him. To achieve this goal, Sharif and his cronies used a variety of legal and illegal means to pressure the Jang Group into compliance.

There is probably no institution in Pakistan which Nawaz Sharif did not aggressively confront in order make them comply to his wishes. Besides picking on a fight with the President, the Judiciary and the already restricted/limited media, Sharif also decided to have a confrontation with the army, the only viable institution left in Pakistan. Chief of Army Staff, General Jehangir Karamat, and Nawaz Sharif had a conflict over an issue pertaining to the national security council and both entered into a heated discussion, after which Gen. Karamat had to offer his resignation. Jehangir Karamat thus became the first Chief of Army Staff in the history of Pakistan to have left the army in this prematurely in this manner.

One by one all challenges and potential obstacles were removed from the way by Nawaz Sharif. Ghulam Ishaq Khan, Farooq Leghari, Sajjad Ali Shah, and Jehangir Karamat, as well as others, were all removed from the scene by Sharif.

After the removal of Jehangir Karamat, Sharif appointed Pervaiz Musharraf as the Chief of Army Staff. Some analysts at the time said that Sharif made this decision thinking that Pervaiz Musharraf was an Urdu speaker and did not belong to a Punjabi army family, thus very unlikely to be a threat to Sharif!

Things became sour between Sharif and Musharraf during the Kargil episode. Later, once a relative of Sharif was removed from the army by Musharraf, that was the final nail in the coffin. Sharif then decided to take his revenge and replace Gen. Musharraf with a fellow of his liking who would be controllable (the head of the I.S.I. at the time).
Farhan Aslam also comments upon the ill-advised economic decisions of Sharif which made Pakistan’s situation from bad to worse. Moreover, he comments upon the Sharif family’s personal business empire and how it grew exponentially through questionable means.

(Nawaz Sharif’s corruption Exposed, Part 1)

(Nawaz Sharif’s corruption Exposed, Part 2)

(Nawaz Sharif’s corruption Exposed, Part 3)

(Nawaz Sharif’s corruption Exposed, Part 4)

(Nawaz Sharif’s corruption Exposed, Part 5)

(Nawaz Sharif’s corruption Exposed, Part 6)

(Lucman Show – Nawaz Sharif case versus Rehmat Shah Afridi – Part 1)

(Lucman Show – Nawaz Sharif case versus Rehmat Shah Afridi – Part 2)

(Lucman Show – Nawaz Sharif case versus Rehmat Shah Afridi – Part 3)

(Lucman Show – Nawaz Sharif case versus Rehmat Shah Afridi – Part 4)

(Lucman Show – Nawaz Sharif case versus Rehmat Shah Afridi – Part 5)

(Lucman Show – Nawaz Sharif case versus Rehmat Shah Afridi – Part 6)

(Mazhar Abbas show – Rehmat Shah Afridi versus Nawaz Sharif)

(Nawaz Sharif’s PML attacks the Supreme Court and chants slogans against Chief Justice Sajjad Ali Shah – Part 1)

(Nawaz Sharif’s PML attacks the Supreme Court and chants slogans against Chief Justice Sajjad Ali Shah – Part 2)

(Nawaz Sharif’s PML attacks the Supreme Court and chants slogans against Chief Justice Sajjad Ali Shah – Part 4)

(Nawz Sharif and Zardari – Abdus-Sattar Edhi)

I am just flabbergasted to know that there are still some people around who support and are willing to go to great lengths to defend this despicable character. By large, this guy looted our country and created mayhem. He attacked every institution within the country, not even sparing the army, and even dreamt of becoming the so-called “Amir ul-Mumineen”!

Listen to any of his recent talks and interviews and all you encounter is the usual waffle, empty rhetoric and emotions. This is all he has to misled the masses and the sad part is that there are people around who find his rubbish convincing!

If you vote and support this guy, then you deserve to be looted by him since you are worse than him. WAKE UP!

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Some Comments:

By: Tariq M Khan on July 13, 2008

Interesting. Ms Shah you are a very good journalist. These things I myself don’t know. I am a chronic Lahori myself.

I tell a very secret perhaps you never had heard. An old railway cricket player told me with full assurance that Nawaz Sharif bribed the railway cricket team manager by giving him Vespa Scooter in order to play a first class match.

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By: shah on July 15, 2008

Hi Tariq, I laughed my head off at the Vespa Story, I have no doubts. How come you have missed the famous Railway Engine which was standing abandoned for sometime near Kanchi wala Pul and than one day disappeared ,Shariefs had melted that for their mill purpose and that means a lot of LOHA in terms of their factory production……………

Anyway I have no personal vengeance against them it is just that very ordinary people had this opportunity to be a leader and they made a fool of themselves they looted and plundered the country and exploited the resources and power to abuse every person around them…….what a nuisance they are……….

very sorry to hear about strike at Faisalabad…….people in the news and media have no vision of how governments are run and true politics is policies which run the economy…….I do not understand LAL MASJID ISSUE for our media……..what do they want militants like that ………everywhere…….do they realise what would these people do first thing is they will probably hang these media men and woman……..TV is haram according to their version of ISLAM.

So deeply sorry that these people have no idea what they are playing with and what is the price of FREEDOM.

They should consider themselves lucky that Musharaff gave these licences but I am sorry as ever it has fell into hands of fool.

Pehlay MULLAH KHA GAYAE HAMAREE CREAM OF THE SOCIETY KO AAB MEDIA MAIN JALEE LOUG AAGAY HAIN.

who are only preaching one word AFRA TAFREE……when all of this is proposed and propogated by themselves.

Without lifting a finger these people have been given the stardom with no policy or culture of explanation, self respect or self repute most importantly thoughtless minds. I am so surprised they have carved such a larger than life person out of president Musharraf.

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By: Tariq M Khan on July 19, 2008

Luqman.com has created thrill in recent days. Mr. Rehmat Shah Afridi’s interview which last well about three hours reminded the Pakistan about the most cruel era of Sharif family. We, Pakistanis, have very short memory (in fact most of the people of the world also have short memory). We forget the remote past and only remember the repeated uttering propaganda. Mr. Rehmat Shah Afridi was ordered death sentence for writing truth about Sharif & Co.

I wonder why during Musharaf’s era he was still in jail. Thanks to Salman Tasir that he is freed now. We see Frontier Post again which I think one of the best newspaper ever published in Pakistan and also its news channel.

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Why is Zardari better than Nawaz Sharif?

By: SAJJAD AHMED- UK on September 10, 2008

I’m no supporter of ppp and pml-n in fact i’m pro musharraf. but i would rather see ppp in government than the ho hopers plm-n. zardari mr 10% does deserve some credit for ousting pml-n…

WELL DONE ZARDARI FOR DUMPING PML-N OUT OF THE GOVERNMENT
Take the label off ZARADRI for being MR 10% and than see his achievement of reaching the presidency and it is staggering.Even if you do label him with MR 10% he still has taken his fair share of punishment by staying in prison for 11 years.

No other corrupt politician has been in prison for the length which their crime of corruption deserves.NAWAZ SHARIF a incompetent leader who has been involved in large scale corruption from getting millions of rupees of loans written off for his industries to KARZ UTHARO MULK SANWARO scheme served only a year or so before showing his coward and non existence leadership qualities by jetting off to Saudi Arabia with his whole family after the humiliating deal he agreed to.

I am no supporter of the PPP and specially Zardari but compare him with NAWAZ SHARIF and you have to admit Zardari has shown much more maturity and smartness than the brainless Nawaz.Zardari has proven to Nawaz on how to act like a politician and not like a immature politician bent on taking revenge from opponents on personal ego whilst damaging national interests on the way.

It was ZARDARI who served 11 years in prison while NAWAZ cut a shameful deal and jetted off to Saudi Arabia

It was ZARADRI who wanted to go ahead with the elections after his wife got murdered while NAWAZ was in favour of boycott

It was ZARDARIS party which won the most seats in the 18th February elections on more issues, while NAWAZ and CO only had one single issue of judiciary to talk about. How can a party be so clueless about real issues and only do politics with one issue?

It was ZARADRI who made it clear that Judiciary needs to be independent and not personalities like IFTIKHAR CHOUDHRY.As the PML-N claimed that no PCO Judges are accepted whilst IFTIKHAR CHOUDHRY himself took oath under PCO so how can we call him the most honest man. So ZARADRIS decision not to restore IFTIKHAR CHOUDHRY was a good one, a decision even MUSHARRAF can be happy with.

It can only be a party like PML-N which has a lack of leadership quality. Leadership which is based on self-interest and family interest or PUNJAB interest which thinks that people who voted for them did so on the basis of restoring the already corrupt and already PCO Oath holders like IFTIKHAR CHOUDHRY.

How can PML-N just exist on one issue, the people who voted for PML-N wanted more, they wanted their problems solved, their day to day life to improve. I’m 100% sure everyone who voted for PML-N was not even interested in IFTIKHAR CHOUDHRY.
But that’s what we can expect from a lacklusture, visionless, objectiveless and pointless existence of NAWAZ SHARIF and PML-N.A party does not deserve to exist if it only has ONE ISSUE to do politics on, even that ONE ISSUE of JUDICIARY is where they have jumped on the bandwagon.

PML-N betrayed their voters by quitting the government. They should have stayed in government and showed some sincerity with its voters by working on their issues.By quitting it showed their lack of interest in ordinary Pakistanis and their issues.
Whereas ZARDARI was the one who slowly and cleverly built together his coalition and was working on future plans.

It was ZARADRI who was able to disunite the Lawyers movement. A movement which did quite a lot in disrupting Pakistan’s progress in the last year.Zardari was able to break the momentum of the movement and also has been successful in buying out some deposed judges and restoring them back into office. In the process of breaking the lawyers movement ZARDARI was successful in shutting up the PML-N who had only one issue to cry on. Now NAWAZ SHARIF has no where to run or nothing to cry about and as expected NAWAZ will go to LONDON and try to hide his humiliation of failing to achieve anything.

It was ZARDARI who contributed the most in MUSHARRAFS RESIGNATION.Nawaz Sharif was moaning about the President for a long time but until ZARADRI agreed everyone was hopeless to do anything. But finally it was ZARADRI who changed his mind and decided to go after the president only than MUSHARRAF decide to call it a day.

Finally it was ZARDARI who wanted to become president and despite all efforts of the PML-N not wanting so,ZARDARI thrashed PML-N’s candidate and became the president of Pakistan whereas NAWAZ the clueless was relying on public opinion polls and thought that his presidential candidate will surprise everyone but once again the wishful thinking of the incompetent NAWAZ SHARIF brought humiliation for him.

So it is ZARADARI AND PPP who have managed to secure the presidency and strengthen their hold in government and it’s the wild and amateurish decisions of NAWAZ SHARIF which has meant that from gaining 90 seats in the National Assembly and securing 9 Ministers their ONE ISSUE POLITICS OF LAWYERS is going no where and they have all resigned from their ministries, their presidential candidate received a battering from ZARADRI and they are sitting on the OPPOSITION BENCHES and NAWAZ is back in LONDON.

WHAT A HUMILIATION THRASHED ON NAWAZ AND PML-N FROM ZARADRI AND PPP.

SAJJAD AHMED – UK

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