Rantburg

Today's Front Page   View All of Mon 06/09/2025 View Sun 06/08/2025 View Sat 06/07/2025 View Fri 06/06/2025 View Thu 06/05/2025 View Wed 06/04/2025 View Tue 06/03/2025
2017-07-29 India-Pakistan
Nawaz’s party picks Shahbaz Sharif to be Pakistan’s next prime minister
[Dhaka Tribune] Pakistain’s ruling Moslem League-Nawaz (PML-N) has finalised name of Punjab
1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots....

Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif
...Pak dynastic politician, brother of PM Nawaz Sharif, chief minister of Punjab...
to replace Nawaz Sharif
... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf...
as prime minister of the country.

According to Geo News, the decision was taken at a meeting of the ruling party after Supreme Court disqualified Nawaz Sharif as the prime minister.

Citing sources, the TV channel said the meeting left the final decision to choose the new candidate for the coveted post to Nawaz Sharif.

Shahbaz Sharif will be put to a vote in the National Assembly, a rubber stamp affair as the PML-N holds a strong majority in the house.

The young Sharif is currently chief minister of powerful Punjab province, the Sharif family stronghold. He would have to step down from that role and be elected to the National Assembly before he was eligible to become prime minister.

That will require a party loyalist to resign from his seat in the national parliament, sparking a hasty vote that Shahbaz would contest on the PML-N ticket.

Shahbaz is considered more intelligent but less charismatic than his older brother.

He has controlled Punjab, Pakistain’s most populous and prosperous province, for much of the last decade, presiding over a series of big ticket infrastructure projects, including Pakistain’s first metro bus service.

Posted by Fred 2017-07-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11139 views ]  Top
 File under: Govt of Pakistan 

#1 Fredo
Posted by Frank G 2017-07-29 12:05||   2017-07-29 12:05|| Front Page Top

#2 As long as it stays in the family
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-07-29 13:26||   2017-07-29 13:26|| Front Page Top

10:32 Grom the Reflective
10:28 Grom the Reflective
10:25 Anguper Hupomosing9418
09:53 swksvolFF
09:52 swksvolFF
09:51 Silentbrick
09:40 SteveS
09:30 Procopius2k
09:22 Lord Garth
09:22 Rex Mundi
09:04 Rambler
08:54 SteveS
08:39 DarthVader
08:36 DarthVader
08:35 badanov
08:33 badanov
08:32 Besoeker
08:27 Skidmark
08:13 Skidmark
08:10 Skidmark
08:09 Rambler
08:06 Skidmark
07:50 Skidmark
07:49 Skidmark









Paypal:
Google
Search WWW Search rantburg.com