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Posted by Dr. Salman in GEO TV - DOORDARSHAN & VOA AGENT, GEO-THE TROJAN HORSE OF INDIA on July 25th, 2013
The proverbial cat is out of bag and Pakistan’s populistSupreme Court has announced its decision on the Report of Media Commission. As expected, the court in its ruling made public on its website has chosen not to touch the sensitive parts of the Report. The most sensitive is dubious interest of foreigners in Pakistan’s electronic media.
There are two most sensitive issues mentioned in the Report:
a) Pakistan Broadcasters’ Association alleged that entertainment channel Urdu 1 was owned by Rupert Murdoch and two Afghan brothers (Mohsini brothers) who were based in Dubai. This channel (Urdu 1) was granted landing right much before it went on air anywhere in the world. The trail of dubious grant of license can be traced to Musa Gilani, son of former Prime Minister and Faryal Talpur, sister of the sitting President.
a) Media watchdog, PEMRA informed the Commission a couple of media houses are reported to have received large grants in the form of advertising contracts from overseas sources. It is said that one such grant is 20 million British pounds. Any attempt by PEMRA to probe such matters immediately leads to claims that there is an attempt to curb freedom of the media and there is always the recourse to obtaining a stay order if an inquiry is held. Most of the funds are channeled through the cover of a Norwegian NGO named Friends without Borders but it was found the footprints of this funding lead to Indian sponsors including the Indian state television, the Doordarshan.
Who is Keith Rupert Murdoch and why the Indians send their money to one Pakistani channel? If the influence of Murdoch and Indians was not checked in Pakistan, then PEMRA was in breach of trust and an accomplice in the crime of allowing foreigners making inroads into Pakistani airwaves through their money.
Keith Rupert Murdoch is an Australian American media mogul. In July 2011, he faced allegations that his companies, including the News of the World, owned by News Corporation, had been regularly hacking the phones of celebrities, royalty and public citizens. He faces police and government investigations into bribery and corruption by the British government and FBI investigations in the US. On 21 July 2012, Murdoch resigned as a director of News International.
The allegation of PEMRA that one channel (GeoTV) received huge amounts in the name of sponsorship is most disturbing. That the amounts were actually sent by Indians should have rung alarm bells in the court room and media watchdog taken to task but the Supreme Court did not utter a single word in its order. The Supreme Court could do was to order an investigation. But this very serious breach of trust on the part of PEMRA escaped the attention of the court which strengthens the perception that the said channel is enjoying strong influence in the court room.
What are the services that Geo is delivering for India? Numerous. From showing excessive Indian contents to bashing Pakistan’s ISI and armed forces for anything happening anywhere in the world. This was the first channel which blamed in unison with Indian media that Mumbai Attacks of November, 2008 were perpetrated by ISI. Not only that, it helped Indian establishment’s line that Pakistanis were involved in the attacks when it prepared a package and informed the world that Ajmal Kassab belonged to a Pakistani town Faridkot. Now when this line of propaganda has been questioned in India with Indian security officials blaming their own government, the cover of this channel has been blown off.
Why this channel bashes ISI and armed forces? Because ISI and armed forces must be weakened at the point in time when they are fighting India’s proxies in FATA, Balochistan and even in Karachi. This is something enemy does to pressurize the security establishment of the rivals and break their resolve to fight. The Pakistani channel is doing exactly the same and earning millions of dollars of Indian money it has received. The security establishment should realize that even this channel is an Indian proxy and needs to be fought. The Supreme Court owes its popularity to this channel and may not take any action or utter any word to displease it.
Posted by ukarriem in TARGET PAKISTAN:4TH GENERATION WARFARE on July 24th, 2013
4TH GENERATION WAR AND PAKISTAN
26TH November will become historic though infamous for the tragic loss of Pakistan soldiers in the cold and chilly dawn at the Salala post of Mohmmand Agency; coming within 12 hrs of touch down of General Allen Jones’ helicopter at the Bagram Airbase after his cordial and frank discussion with Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani to discuss measures of enhancing border control on both sides; coincidently the attack follows the conclusion of Pakistan China military exercise in Pakistan and happens on the last day of Islamic year 1432 AH. One would rather get perplexed and confused. This probably is the start of the decisive phase of long War in the Afpak region, this time directly targeted against Pakistan, the ally of the allies. Welcome to the 3rd World War in which you can be part of the war without even noticing it; there are no formal declarations of war and where the 4th Generation War is order of the day.
Wikipedia describes it as, Fourth generation warfare (4GW) is conflict characterized by a blurring of the lines between war and politics, soldier and civilian. The term was first used in 1989 by a team of United States analysts, including William S. Lind, to describe warfare’s return to a decentralized form. In terms of generational modern warfare, the fourth generation signifies the nation states’ loss of their near-monopoly on combat forces, returning to modes of conflict common in pre-modern times. The simplest definition includes any war in which one of the major participants is not a state but rather a violent non-state actor. As such, fourth generation warfare uses classical tactics—tactics deemed unacceptable by traditional modern thinking—to weaken the advantaged opponent’s will to win.
However, William S Lind (due to his bias against Islam) put the entire blame of start of 4th Generation War on Islam, that is clever tactics, you develop an idea of destroying the entire Islamic World, than you create definitions, churn up scenarios and finally assault a whole region to keep it destabilized till dooms day..And very conveniently blame it on Islam. William S Lind describes this new form of war as Fourth Generation war marked by a return to a world of cultures, not merely states, in conflict. We now find ourselves facing the Christian West’s oldest and most steadfast opponent, Islam. After about three centuries on the strategic defensive, following the failure of the second Turkish siege of Vienna in 1683, Islam has resumed the strategic offensive, expanding outward in every direction. In this war, invasion by immigration can be at least as dangerous as invasion by a state army.
I had argued in number of articles related to the Long War that Pakistan was at centre stage of this war and that US lead coalition was hell bent in creating divisions and cleavages in the West Asian region to find a space for success of this Long War. Fortunately the West has miserably failed on many accounts, people of Afpak region has proven to more resilient than expected, they have adapted themselves in these pressing and hard times and the mighty power of the US lead coalition has been diluted in time (more than a decade now) to suffer a humiliating defeat. Your own historians will not judge you that you were defeated because of resilience of the people of Afpak region but by mathematical parameters, the equation here is between the most prosperous and high tech super power verses the poorest and low tech nation of the Afghans, it is between the richest and Burger Gobbling nations of the MacWorld on one side and poorest chappal wearing and corncob eating nation on the other side, it is between the nations with total dominance of Media(from Al Jezeera to CNN-Fox-BBC-Star-Zee-Times-Newsweek-Guardian-Afghan Govt channels-Pakistani Channels) versus the people with virtually no voice to celebrate their historic victory.
As I said earliar, 26th November marks a turning point in the final phase of this Long war against the Afpak region, now the war has been directly and officially brought into Pakistan. Why I say directly and officially is because of the fact that this Long War was already being indirectly and un officially fought within Pakistan for almost a decade. The blurring of the lines between war and politics, soldier and civilian makes it very difficult to feel that you are right at the centre stage and within the middle of a World War. You are made so much immune and apathetic to loss of human life that you daily see it on your TV screens in your cushy drawing rooms, over a cup of hot coffee or if you are not that privileged from the foot path on the TV screen of a barber shop, and exclaim within your heart …oh it is the Libyans, not my business, it is the Behrainians, not my business, oh it is the Afghans, not my business, oh it is FATA, not from Lahore, not my business, oh it is not from my muhallah, not my business and finally, oh it is my younger brother not me…till the time you will be dragged and slaughtered like Col Gaddafi..It is none of your business.
The aim of my discourse here is not to demoralize the common Pakistanis but to make them aware that you have successfully weathered this storm of 4th Generation War for a decade now, you are now entering the last and the most decisive phase of the war, remain united and clear any doubts that you had in your mind of the sincerity of the West, no one is there to help you, everyone is here for his own interest. Pakistan is not only the linchpin in this war but the jugular vein of the NATO and entire Afghanistan, if our leadership can take a firm stand and lead the nation to the path of unity, there is no way that the west can ask you to do any more. We are 180 million strong nation destined to find a place in the sun, the vacuum created by war in Afpak region can only be filled up by people of the Afpak, Pakistan and Afghanistan are not only physical twins but also twins of history and posterity. Time has come to call a spade a spade, let us start a simple and descent celebration of our victory on the dawn of 1st of Muharram 1433 AH.
4TH GENERATION WAR AND PAKISTAN | Opinion Maker
Disintegration of Pakistan on Yugoslav model
Yugoslavia had always been a home to a very diverse population, not only in terms of national affiliation, but also religious affiliation. Of the many religions, Islam, Roman Catholicism, Judaism and Protestantism as well as various Eastern Orthodox faiths composed the religions of Yugoslavia, comprising over 40 in all. The religious demographics of Yugoslavia have changed dramatically since World War II. A census taken in 1921 and later in 1948 show that 99% of the population appeared to be deeply involved with their religion and practices. With postwar government programs of modernization and urbanization, the percentage of religious believers took a dramatic plunge. Connections between religious belief and nationality posed a serious threat to the post-war Communist government’s policies on national unity and state structure.[8]
After the rise of communism, a survey taken in 1964 showed that just over 70% of the total population of Yugoslavia considered themselves to be religious believers. The places of highest religious concentration were that of Kosovo with 91% and Bosnia and Herzegovina with 83.8%. The places of lowest religious concentration were Slovenia 65.4%, Serbia with 63.7% and Croatia with 63.6%. Religious differences between Orthodox Serbs, Catholic Croats, and Muslim Bosniaks and the rise of nationalism contributed to the collapse of Yugoslavia in 1991.
Elements
Fourth generation warfare is defined as conflicts which involve the following elements:
Are complex and long term
-Terrorism (tactic)
-A non-national or transnational base—highly decentralized
-A direct attack on the enemy’s culture
-Highly sophisticated psychological warfare, especially through media manipulation and lawfare
-All available pressures are used – political, economic, social and military
-Occurs in low intensity conflict, involving actors from all networks
-Non-combatants are tactical dilemmas
-Lack of hierarchy
-Small in size, spread out network of communication and financial support
-Use of Insurgency and guerrilla tactics
Fourth generation warfare – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Civil Democratic Islam
Posted by farrukh in Pakistan-A Nation of Hope on July 24th, 2013
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Posted by Shahroz Bashir in INCOMPETENCE & CORRUPTION IN NAWAZ SHARIF GOVT, Sifarish & Powowa on July 24th, 2013
You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
Musadik Malik, a Pharmacist from Boston, has fooled mediocre and incompetent power elites of Pakistan and ended-up holding a key position in Pakistan’s Ministry of Water & Power.
There are many Pakistanis who are jobless in America. They are very hard working and extremely talented people but have fallen on hard economic times.
But, there are a few exceptions among them. These include those who hail from well-connected families of Pakistan, the so-called Waderas, Zamindars, Industrialist, Bureaucrat, and Jagirdars,
Johnnies like Musadik Malik surviving in US, always have a Plan B.
Plan B is the fall back position for unemployed progeny of Pakistan elites in US. They use their connections with the high and mighty in in Pakistan to land on their feet not in US but in Pakistan
A classic case is that of Masadik Malik.
He was unemployed in US for a long time, because he had a Ph.D degree in Pharmacy tooo high a qualification to work in a neighbourhood drug store. At that time there was a glut of B.Pharms in the US job market. Therefore doctorates were considered over-qualified.
Musadik Malik tried every possible approach to keep his head above water but still could not find a job in Boston, Massachusetts or for that matter anywhere else in US
He followed through with Plan B and using his connections in UAE he landed on his feet. And founded a nebulous company by the name of DNA. This was a paper company, where, he wanted to pad his resume.
Musadik Malik Gift for Gab or as they say in American slang, a tendency to Bullshit
Any forum, where Musadik Malik can talk he finagles his way into it.
He is full of form, but has no substance
Musadik Malik utilizes his gift for gab to climb the career, as well as the social ladder., or as they say in US, he is a “Bullshit,” Artist. He right away found an advisory position in the “gang that could’nt shoot straight, cabinet of the Mir Hazar Khan Bijarani. But, since there is no Ministry for Pharmacist, Musadik thought it convenient to try for the Ministry of Power.
So, Musadik Malik, a US Citizen did not renounce his US citizenship and ended-up according to his self-promotion Website:http://dnahealthcorp.com/pages/musadik_malik
Appointed Federal Minister, Water and Power of the Pakistan Government in April 2013, Musadik Malik is also CEO and Managing Director of the Boston Innovation Group based in Bahrain. – See more at: http://dnahealthcorp.com/pages/musadik_malik#sthash.dNp8uzpd.dpuf
Musadik Malik’s greatest asset is the Art of Bullshit. He uses his gift of gab to advance not only his career, but also, his social status
In Pakistan, he developed his own neural network of connections among the power elites. he hit the jackpot with the senile PM Mir Hazar Khan Bijarani with whom he latched on using his charm and gift of gab.
When the Pakistan Government was being transferred from Mir Hazar Khan Bijarani to Nawaz Sharif, Musadik Malik had to give a presentation on the achievements and plans of his portfolio. Well, that became his direct entry into the
inner circle of power in Pakistan. Nawaz Sharif, who has a knack for choosing hacks (because as they say, “it takes one to know one,)”became a fan of Musadik Malik’s “Bullshit.” The rest is history, and folks that is how
Pakistan got a pharmacist to solve its humungous load -shedding problems.
This also demonstrates the calibre of leaders Pakistan has produced, as Prime Ministers. Likes of Gilani were followed by Bijarani, who in turn is followed by the three timer himself, none other than the Coward of Kargil, Nawaz Sharif a.k.a. Bhagora.
Incompetent Nawaz Sharif, could not find a single electrical engineer, among the thousands in Pakistan to run the Federal Ministry of Water and Power. He had to import, a “has been” pharmacistfrom the United States (who still hold his US Citizenship) to the most critical ministry in Pakistan.
Of course, Nawaz Sharif cared the least if this man had even a remote expertise in this crucial ministry. It is possible, since, Load shedding was the biggest head ache facing Nawaz Sharif, he decided to bring a pharmacist to run the Ministry of Water & Power. One can conjecture that Nawaz Sharif needed a pharmacist to relieve his biggest head ache:The Pakistan Power Crisis.
Nothing changes in Pakistan, where square pegs have filled round holes almost all the time for the last 65 years.
So why NOT, have a Pharmacist running the Water & Power Ministry.
That shows Nawaz Sharif’s acuity in recognizing talent and giving it position and power, where it can show its maximum incompetence.
But, 180 million Pakistanis don’t care. They are too hungry and suffering from economic deprivations. They are still in a honey moon phase with a Prime Minister, whose IQ in problem solving runs into negative numbers.
Posted by farrukh in NAWAZ SHARIF: THE LOOTER on July 24th, 2013
True Face of Nawaz Sharif & Ahsan Iqbal Exposed by Talat
Posted by Brave_Heart in ” RIAZ THE SHAITAN OF PAKISTAN, Nawaz “Badami Lassi Kim Barker Thurke” Sharif on April 25th, 2013
Living like a king — Sharif’s litany of abuses
News Intelligence Unit
By Kamran Khan
While constantly pleading with expatriate Pakistanis to send their hard-earned dollars to their motherland, former prime minister Nawaz Sharif caused a dent of at least Rs 110 crore to the national exchequer through the 28 foreign trips he undertook after assuming power on February 17, 1997.
Official documents seen by the News Intelligence Unit (NIU) disclosed that about Rs 15 crore were spent from the tax-payers money for Nawaz Sharif’s six Umra trips. For almost each of his foreign visits, Nawaz Sharif used his special Boeing plane that he had promised to return to PIA for commercial use in his famous national agenda speech in June last year.
Almost unbelievably, instead of keeping his promise to return this special aircraft to PIA, Sharif ordered an extravagant US$1.8 million renovation of his aircraft that turned the Boeing into an airborne palace. While reading sermons on austerity to the nation on almost every domestic tour, on this aircraft — on which all the seats were in a first class configuration — Nawaz Sharif and his entourage would always be served a specially-cooked, seven-course meal. PIA’s former chairman Shahid Khaqan Abbasi had, in fact, hired a cook who was familiar with Sharif’s craze for a special type of ‘Gajrela’ (carrot dessert).
While aboard his special plane, Sharif was always served ‘Lassi’ or Badami milk in a Mughal style silver glass by a crew of his choice. Even on domestic flights, Sharif and his men would be served with Perrier water, not available even to first class domestic passengers. The towels he would use on board, had golden embroidery.
Not for a moment, after making his historic promise to the nation in June last year for leaving the palatial prime minister house for a modest residence in Islamabad, did Nawaz Sharif show any intention to leave the prime minister’s palace. On the contrary, soon after that speech, the Prime Minister House received fresh supplies of imported crockery and groceries.
Some of the permanent in-house residents were Sharif’s personal friends, including one Sajjad Shah who used to crack jokes and play songs for him. Sharif’s little-known political mentor Hasan Pirzada, who died last month, always lived at the Prime Minister House. Sources estimate that Pirzada’s daily guest-list to the PM House numbered around 100 people who were always served with meals or snacks.
In the first year of Nawaz Sharif’s second term in power, Hamid Asghar Kidwai of Mehran bank fame, lived and operated from the Prime Minister House until he was appointed Pakistan’s ambassador to Kenya.
While making unending promises of instituting merit in all appointments and selections, Sharif played havoc with the system while issuing personal directives by ordering 30 direct appointments of officers in the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA). While Sharif was ordering these unprecedented direct appointments, his crony Saifur Rahman was seeking strict punishment and disqualification of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto for making direct appointments in Pakistan International Airlines.
Out of these 30 people who were directly appointed on posts ranging from deputy director to inspector in the FIA — without interviews, examination or training — 28 were from Lahore and were all close to the Sharif family or his government. One of the lucky inductees was a nephew of President Rafiq Tarar.
Nawaz Sharif had such an incredible liking for his friends from Lahore or Central Punjab, that not a single non-Central Punjabi was included in his close circle, both at the political or administrative levels in the Prime Minister’s Office. At one point, during his tenure, there was not a single Sindhi-speaking active federal secretary in Islamabad.
For about the first 18 months of Sharif’s second term in office, 41 of the most important appointments in Pakistan were in the hands of individuals who were either from Lahore or Central Punjab, despite the total lack of representation of smaller provinces in State affairs. Sharif stunned even his cabinet by choosing Rafiq Tarar for the post of President.
His activities were almost totally Lahore or Punjab focussed, reflected by the fact that in the first 16 months of power, he had only one overnight stay in Karachi. Conversely, he held an open Kutchery on every Sunday in Lahore, a gesture he never showed in any of the smaller provinces.
Nawaz Sharif, who had always promised a ‘small government’ ended up with no less than 48 people with the status of a federal minister in his cabinet. Ironically, less than fifteen per cent of the people in 49-member cabinet came from the three smaller provinces.
While anti-corruption rhetoric always topped his public speeches, Nawaz Sharif demonstrated tremendous tolerance for corruption as he completely ignored strong evidence laden corruption reports against Liaquat Ali Jatoi and his aides in Karachi.
Sources said that volumes of documents on the corruption of Liaquat Ali Jatoi, his brother Senator Sadaqat Ali Jatoi, the then Sindh health secretary and several of Liaquat’s personal staff members were placed before Nawaz Sharif, but he never ordered any action. These sources said that Nawaz Sharif also ignored evidence that showed Liaquat’s newly discovered business interests in Dubai and London.
Informed official sources said that Nawaz Sharif also ignored reports, even those produced by Shahbaz Sharif, about rampant corruption in the Ehtesab Cell (EC). Shahbaz Sharif and several other cabinet ministers had informed Sharif that Khalid Aziz and Wasim Afzal, Saifur Rahman’s right-hand men in the EC were involved in institutionalised corruption through extortion from Ehtesab victims and manipulation of the Intelligence Bureau’s secret funds.
Sources said that the Ehtesab Cell had issued official departmental cards to one Sarfraz Merchant, involved in several cases of bootlegging and another to Mumtaz Burney, a multi-billionaire former police official who had earlier been sacked from the service for being hand in glove with a notorious drug baron. Sharif was told that these two notorious individuals were serving as middle men between Khalid Aziz, Wasim Afzal and those sought by the EC both here and abroad.
Fully aware that Khawer Zaman and Major General Enayet Niazi were amongst the most honest and upright director generals of the FIA, he booted them out only to be replaced by handpicked cronies such as Major (Retd) Mohammad Mushtaq.
Sources said that while posting Rana Maqbool Ahmed as the Inspector General Police, Sindh, Nawaz Sharif was reminded by his younger brother Shahbaz Sharif about his reputation as one of the most corrupt Punjab police officers and also about his shady past. But Nawaz Sharif not only installed Rana as the IGP, but also acted on his advice to remove Gen. Moinuddin Haider as the Governor Sindh.
In a startling paradox, right at the time when the government media campaign was at its peak about the properties of Benazir Bhutto and Asif Ali Zardari in Britain, particularly Rockwood estate in Surrey, disclosures came to light about the Sharif family’s multi-million pound apartments in London’s posh district of Mayfair.
The apartment No: 16, 16a, 17 and 17a that form the third floor of the Avonfield House in Mayfair is the residential base for Sharif family in London. Records show that all those four apartments were in the name Nescoll Ltd and Nielson Ltd Ansbacher (BVI) Ltd, the two off-shore companies managed by Hans Rudolf Wegmuller of Banque Paribas en Suisse and Urs Specker — the two Swiss nationals alleged to be linked with Sharif’s offshore fortune.
In a knee-jerk reaction last year, Sharif first denied the ownership of those flats. Later, his younger son Hasan Nawaz Sharif said the family had leased only two of the flats, while their spokesmen, including former law minister Khalid Anwer, said that Sharif had actually rented those flats.
But what will count with legal experts is the fact that in their tax returns, none of the Sharif family members had ever showed any foreign ownership of any properties, nor had their tax returns listed payments for any rented apartments abroad.
“With the sale of these Mayfair apartments, you can buy three Rockwood-size properties of Asif Zardari,” commented a source, who added that Sharif’s third party owned properties in Britain may land them in a crisis comparable only with Benazir and Zardari’s cases abroad.
In another example of hypocrisy, while Sharif geared up his government’s campaign against loan defaulters in Pakistan, a High Court in London declared his family a defaulter and ordered them to pay US$ 18.8 million to Al-Towfeek Company and its subsidiary Al-Baraka Islamic Bank as payment for interest and loan they had borrowed for Hudabiya Papers Limited.
The court papers said that the Sharifs refused to make payments on the principle amount and instead directed official action against the Arab company’s business interests in Pakistan. Informed sources said that a few days before the fall of the Nawaz Sharif government on October 12, lawyers representing the Sharif family were busy in hectic behind-the-scenes negotiations with Al-Towfeek executives in London for an out-of-court settlement. These sources said that negotiations in London broke down soon after the army action in Islamabad.
While Nawaz Sharif deployed the entire state machinery and spent millions of dollars from the IB’s secret fund to prove money-laundering charges against Benazir Bhutto and her husband abroad, his government crushed any attempt by the FIA to move the Supreme Court of Pakistan against a decision handed down by the Lahore High Court absolving the Sharif family from money-laundering charges instituted against them by the last PPP government.
FIA officials who had investigated the money-laundering charges against the Sharifs faced termination from service, while the agency was told that even a decision to probe money-laundering was a crime. This particular case is likely to now go to the Supreme Court in the next few weeks.
Several inquiries against Sharifs pending with NAB
ISLAMABAD – Some three corruption references and almost half a dozen inquiries were pending with National Accountability Bureau (NAB) and Accountability Courts against former Premier and PML-N President Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif and his other family members, but the same could not be reopened as the Division Bench of Lahore High Court Rawalpindi Bench had barred the NAB to proceed against Sharif family.
Officials in the National Accountability Bureau informed The Nation that the Division Bench of Lahore High Court Rawalpindi Bench consisting of Justice Ijazul Hasan and Justice Wahid Khan, an appellate forum of Accountability Courts, had barred the Accountability Courts to proceed against Mian Nawaz Sharif and other family members in these three cases in October last year. The preemptive move was made in the Division Bench of LHC Rawalpindi after the incumbent Chairman NAB Admiral (Retd) Fasih Bokhari was appointed despite the objection on his appointment was made through a letter written to President Asif Ali Zardari by Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Ch. Nisar Ali Khan.
Sources in the PML-N informed that they had secured stay order against reopening of these cases from the Appellate Court only to prevent the PPP-led coalition government to use these cases for arm twisting of the PML-N leadership though NAB.
So an application for early hearing of their petition, pending with the court for past several months, was initiated and the very next day of moving of the application by AkramSheikh Advocate stay against the opening of these cases was secured from the Division Bench of LHC Rawalpindi.
All the three cases-Hudaybia Paper Mills,Ittefaq Foundries and Assets reference—were framed against Mian Nawaz Sharif and his family members after dislodging of his elected government in 1999 and during year 2000 and initially all the three cases had been fixed for trial at Accountability Court Attock where Mian Nawaz Sharif and his brother MianShahbaz Sharif were kept after the dislodging of their government. All these cases were adjourned sine die under some clandestine deal when Mian Nawaz Sharif and his family was exiled to Saudi Arabia.
These cases were reopened in year 2007 when the Supreme Court allowed Mian Nawaz Sharif to return back to Pakistan but once again he was sent back to Saudi Arabia moments after he landed here at Islamabad Airport.
The request for the reopening of these cases was again made in year 2010 when the then Prosecutor General NAB Dr Danishwar Malik had moved an application seeking reopening of these cases on the plea that as the accused in these cases had returned back to the country so the cases against them should be reopened. But the matter once again went into limbo when the Accountability Court Rawalpindi No. 1 judge directed the Prosecutor General to furnish the request for reopening of these cased duly signed by Chairman NAB but as the slot of Chairman NAB was vacant and once again the court had adjourned these cases sine die. In State vs Hudaybia Paper Mills (Pvt) Ltd-nine members of the Sharif family were accused of committing a corruption of Rs 642.743 million.
As per NAB allegations the accused had secured loan against the Hudaybia Paper Mills and later used this money to pay off the loans of other companies owned by the Sharif family. Mian Muhammad Sharif, Mian Nawaz Sharif, Mian Shahbaz Sharif, Mian Abbas Sharif, Hussain Nawaz, Hamza Shahbaz Sharif, Mrs Shamim Akhtar (Mother to NawazSharif), Mrs Sabiha Abbas, Mrs Maryam Safdar and former Federal Minister Ishaq Dar were the accused in this reference.
In State Vs Ittefaq Foundries etc, Mian Nawaz Sharif, his brother Mian Abbas Sharif and Kamal Qureshi were charged with the willful default of Rs 1.06 billion.
The main allegation against the accused in this case was that M/s Ittefaq Foundries Ltd obtained cash finance from National Bank. As per NAB allegations, the company willfully defaulted to pay back the amount in 1994. In State vs Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif etc is about the Raiwind assets.
Main allegation in this reference is that the accused had acquired vast tracts of land on which a number of palatial houses and mansions were constructed with less resources, which appeared to be grossly disproportionate to their known sources of income. As per NAB allegations, there involved an amount Rs 247.352 million that is under question. Apart from Mian Nawaz Sharif, his mother was also an accused in this case.
There are six investigations against Sharif pending before the NAB following Chairman NAB’s order. These pending investigations included; case of illegal appointments in theFIA against Mian Nawaz Sharif; misuse of authority by Nawaz Sharif as ex-Chief Minister Punjab in the construction of road from Raiwind to Sharif family house causing loss of Rs125 million; Sharif Trust case against Nawaz Sharif/Sharif Trust involving allegation of money laundering, misappropriation of trust funds and acquisition of benami assets in the name of Sharif Trust; London properties case against Nawaz Sharif and others regarding owning of Aven Field properties in London; Illegal appointments in PIA allegedly byMian Nawaz Sharif, and corruption in the allotment of Lahore Development Authority (LDA) plots involving ex-CM Nawaz Sharif, ex-DG LDA Brig (Retd) Manzoor Malik, ex-Director Estate and Shahid Rafi.
Two pending inquiries against Sharifs in the NAB included a complaint of allotment of LDA plots and another complaint about alleged misappropriation of government property by allotting 12 plots to Mian Attaullah instead of one in Gulshan Ravi Scheme ,thereby, causing loss of Rs 20 million to the State.
It is pertinent to mention here that Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif and other accused in plane hijacking and helicopter case were acquitted
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