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...“Pakistan’s most consequential election has altered the national political landscape,” said Mushahid Hussain, a senator from Sharif’s PML-N....
...Nazeer Hussain, a 43-year-old wheat miller in Khoundi, says the country’s leaders only care about securing power for themselves....
...Even Mushahid Hussain, a senator for PML-N, wrote on social media site X early on Friday that the result appeared to be “the biggest election upset in Pakistan’s political history”....
...“I am struggling to meet my household expenses,” said Saeed Hussain, a car washer in Islamabad. “My income has gone down. This is my immediate concern, not some conspiracy.”...
...According to Land Registry records, the same property was purchased for £42.5m in 2016 from Hasan Nawaz Sharif, the son of ex-Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif....
...Political turbulence in Pakistan has opened the door to military intervention before, such as in 1999 when Nawaz Sharif was ousted in a coup....
...On Thursday, Mr Sharif’s daughter Maryam and her husband Mohammad Safdar were also indicted. Mr Sharif’s two sons, Hasan and Hussain are also co-defendants in the same cases....
...That is the day when she, her brothers Hussain and Hassan, her husband Mohammad Safdar, and her father are all due to appear in an anti-corruption court in Islamabad accused of failing to fully disclose...
...Also facing criminal charges for corruption are Mr Sharif’s two sons Hussain and Hassan Nawaz, his daughter Maryam and her husband Muhammad Safdar Awan....
...Abida Hussain, a former Pakistani ambassador to Washington, said the US move could prompt Islamabad to shut down supply routes used by the US for its troops in Afghanistan....
...The judgment now calls for a joint investigative team to be established, made up of the country’s military and civilian intelligence agencies, to investigate the money trail of how Mr Sharif’s sons, Hussain...
...A Pakistani politician living in exile in London has been stripped of his authority to control the city of Karachi, unleashing a fresh round of uncertainty for Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s troubled government...
...“Karachi has a population of 20m, which is one-tenth of Pakistan,” said one senior official from Nawaz Sharif’s prime ministerial office in Islamabad....
...Can Nawaz Sharif provide that?”...
...Mamnoon Hussain, Pakistan’s president, said in a speech that “Pakistan cannot forget the Kashmiris on this occasion, and will continue supporting them for their just struggle to self-determination”....
...Since December, when an attack on an army school in Peshawar left 150 people dead — mostly children — the military and the civilian government of prime minister Nawaz Sharif vowed revenge on terrorists....
...Western diplomats said the raid would make it harder for Nawaz Sharif, prime minister, to maintain MQM compliance while clamping down on militants in Karachi....
...Hasan Askari Rizvi, a commentator on political and security affairs, said the fallout from Mr Hussain’s arrest could add to the political troubles of Nawaz Sharif, prime minister....
...Known as Ashura, the day is dedicated to the memory of an epic battle in Karbala, southern Iraq, about 14 centuries ago in which Imam Hussain, the Prophet Mohammed’s grandson, was massacred along with 72...
...“The ball is in the prime minister’s court because it’s [the government] a one-man show,” said Mushahid Hussain Sayed, a member of the upper house of parliament, echoing a wider view of the need for a major...
...Mr Sharif himself, however, cannot escape blame for the current crisis....
...“After these two attacks, I cannot imagine the government continuing on the peace initiative,” said Abida Hussain, a former member of parliament and Pakistan’s former ambassador to the US....
...In return, the Taliban demanded that “all foreign investors, airline and multinational corporations” leave Pakistan and threatened to attack the Punjabi heartland of Nawaz Sharif, the prime minister....
...Mustansar Hussain Tarar, Urdu writer and columnist, talks of the “VIP treatment” given to younger English language writers....
...Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will remain the most powerful figure in the civilian government in Pakistan, an ally for the US in battling Islamic militants and negotiating an end to the war in neighbouring...
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