Tag: Prime Minister

  • Fawad Ch says PML-N’s Khawaja Asif ‘lobbying to become prime minister’

    Fawad Ch says PML-N’s Khawaja Asif ‘lobbying to become prime minister’

    Federal Minister for Science & Technology Fawad Chaudhry has claimed that Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Khawaja Muhammad Asif “is lobbying to become the prime minister (PM)”.

    Speaking to a private media outlet, the minister claimed that Asif wanted both former PM Nawaz Sharif and his brother, PML-N chief Shehbaz Sharif, to seek British citizenship and leave Pakistan for good. “He wants the entire [Sharif] family to move there [United Kingdom], and that he be granted the reins of PML-N.”

    When asked by anchor and host Arshad Sharif as to what would that mean for other senior leaders such as ex-PM Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, Fawad said Asif believes he played an important role in securing Nawaz the permission to seek medical treatment abroad. “He thinks he is on really good terms [with the Sharif family] nowadays, and so is the best candidate,” the federal minister added.

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    To this, the journalist asked if Asif was in contact with federal cabinet members and that was how he managed to pave way for convicted former premier’s foreign travel. Fawad, however, did not answer the question.

  • Mehwish Hayat to run for PM in 2028?

    Mehwish Hayat to run for PM in 2028?

    Mehwish Hayat has hinted that she might be running for Prime Minister in 2028.

    The actor who was recently voted the second sexiest woman in Pakistan took to Twitter to reject the title adding that “these sort of lists should now be confined to history.”

    Mehwish asserted that people should be judged on “talent, on merit, on intellect, on wit…but not on physical attributes.”

    Mehwish’s response was received with a lot of positivity by social media users. One user commented that this was “of the sexiest tweets I’ve read” adding that Mehwish for PMship in 2023.

    To this Mehwish replied, “Not 2023 but 2028,” adding a LOL (Laugh out Loud).

    When another user commented “Totally my next PM,” Mehwish remarked, “Make sure to vote for me in 2028 then.”

  • Finland’s Sanna Marin to become world’s youngest sitting prime minister

    Finland’s Sanna Marin to become world’s youngest sitting prime minister

    Finland’s 34-year-old transportation minister Sanna Marin, has been selected as the country’s prime minister (PM) on Dec 08, making her the youngest leader in the world to ever hold the PM’s job, Quartz reported.

    According to the details, Marin will be taking over from former PM Antii Rinne, who resigned from the position last week after just six months on the job, following controversy over his handling of a postal strike.

    Like Rinne, Marin is also a member of the Social Democratic Party, the largest in Finland’s five-member ruling coalition. Finland’s other four parties are also led by women, three of whom are under 35 years old.

    Rinne resigned on Tuesday after the Centre Party, said it had lost confidence in him following his handling of a postal strike.

    Reports claim that Marin will continue an agenda to reduce carbon emissions, and after winning a narrow party vote against SDP parliamentary group leader Antti Lindtman, Marin told reporters that “We have a lot of work ahead to rebuild trust.”

    Marin has had a swift rise in Finnish politics since becoming head of the city council of her industrial hometown of Tampere at the age of 27.

    She will take over in the middle of a 3-day wave of strikes, which will halt production at some of Finland’s largest companies from Monday. The Confederation of Finnish Industries estimates the strikes will cost the companies a combined 500 million euros ($550 million) in lost revenue.

  • VIDEO: Firdous reluctant to name Malik Riaz in front of media while talking about £190m UK case

    VIDEO: Firdous reluctant to name Malik Riaz in front of media while talking about £190m UK case

    Special Assistant to the Prime Minister (PM) for Information and Broadcasting Firdous Ashiq Awan refrained from naming Malik Riaz in front of the media while giving details about £190 million property settlement case in the United Kingdom (UK).

    Firdous avoided saying Malik Riaz’s name when a journalist asked her about the family who had settled with the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA).

    The special assistant while replying to the question said, “The report contains the name of the family who made settlement”.

    The UK’s crime agency had earlier agreed to a settlement worth £190 million with the family of property tycoon Malik Riaz. The statement from the agency said, “The £190 million settlement is the result of an investigation by the NCA into Malik Riaz Hussain, a Pakistani national, whose business is one of the biggest private sector employers in Pakistan”.

    Meanwhile, the special assistant to the PM on Accountability Mirza Shahzad Akbar has said, “The money has been transferred to the Supreme Court and we have already filed a request before the apex court that the money should be given to us [state of Pakistan]”.

    However, Mirza Akbar did not remove the ambiguity as to how the money can be transferred to the Supreme Court, if the NCA anno­unced in its official press release that it will be given to the state of Pakistan.

  • ‘Don’t panic, exciting times ahead’, PM Imran promises relief, again

    ‘Don’t panic, exciting times ahead’, PM Imran promises relief, again

    Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan has again asked the nation not to panic, as exciting times promising end to poverty and price hike were just around the corner, The News International reported.

    According to the details, PM while launching ‘Digital Pakistan’ — a government initiative aimed at introducing the latest technology for public welfare — said that the country will experience a quantum leap ahead, adding that his government will not rest until the elimination of price hike.

    “E-governance is necessary to curb corruption, which is rampant across the country at all levels. This initiative will ease the lives of citizens. Our government will put all out efforts to promote Digital Pakistan. The future of Pakistan is very exciting,” PM Imran said.

    The primier said that the campaign will “unleash the youth’s potential” in the country, adding that developments in the digital arena were taking place at a fast pace, and in future everything would be done through a mobile phone.

    Imran Khan said, “The vision sets Pakistan’s digital ambition and has been designed both for the public and private sector to work towards a digitally progressive and inclusive Pakistan”. He added, with the introduction of ‘Digital Pakistan Vision’, the full potential of contribution of the youth and the women to the economy will be unleashed.

    The premier while regretting that he had not launched this project at the very beginning when his government was formed, said “I should have given attention to a Digital Pakistanearlier. This is the most important thing for Pakistan right now, especially its youth. The whole world is moving forward digitally and we have been left behind”.

  • Nawaz would’ve made PM again if he hadn’t listened to people around him: Brig (r) Ijaz Shah

    Nawaz would’ve made PM again if he hadn’t listened to people around him: Brig (r) Ijaz Shah

    Federal Minister for Interior Brigadier (r) Ijaz Ahmed Shah has said that former prime minister (PM) Nawaz Sharif would have been elected as the country’s chief executive for the fourth time had he “not listened to the three or four people around him”.

    In an interview to a private news channel, the minister said that “these people included two or three MNAs and a few senators”, adding that “he won’t take names”.

    He also said that these people were still there around Nawaz and won’t let any person of the Sharif family stay out of jail.

    When asked if they included disgruntled Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Chaudhary Nisar, Ijaz replied, “If Nawaz had listened to Nisar, everything would have been fine.”

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    The former premier is currently imprisoned at Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat Jail after an accountability court handed him a seven-year jail term in the Al-Azizia Steel Mills corruption case.

    Nawaz has been serving the jail term since December 24, 2018.

  • VIDEO: Fawad Chaudhry wants to be Deputy Prime Minister?

    VIDEO: Fawad Chaudhry wants to be Deputy Prime Minister?

    Minister of Science and Technology Fawad Chaudhry says that he told PM Khan that in countries like Korea, Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia, the ministers for science and technology are as powerful as a Deputy Prime Minister. (hint hint)

    When we asked Fawad whether he was joking or being serious, he said he meant it as a joke.

    Fawad’s counterparts in the countries he mentioned are:

    The Minister of Science and Tech in Korea is Dr Yanghee Choi since 2014 but doesn’t have an active Wikipedia page. He was previously the Chairman of Samsung Science and Tech Foundation.  

    Minister of Science and Tech in Singapore doesn’t exist. Science and Tech comes under the Ministry of Trade and Industry whose minister is Chan Chun Sing who is a former major general and also served as Singapore’s Chief of Army (Infantry).

    Yeo Bee Yin currently is the Minister of Energy, Science and Tech, Environment and Climate change in Malaysia. A member of parliament, one of her first initiatives was to ban on the import of plastic waste.

    Indonesia’s Science and Tech minister is professor. Mohamad Nasir was also the Dean of the Accounting program at a university and was involved in a major controversy in 2016 when he wanted to ban the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender community on campus.

    Indonesia’s Science and Tech minister is professor. Mohamad Nasir was also the Dean of the Accounting program at a university and was involved in a major controversy in 2016 when he wanted to ban the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender community on campus.

  • Budget 2019-20: Expenses worth Rs2.3 million a day proposed for PM’s Office

    Budget 2019-20: Expenses worth Rs2.3 million a day proposed for PM’s Office

    Funds worth Rs860.28 million have been allocated for the Prime Minister’s (PM) Office in the federal budget for the fiscal year 2019-20, the Ministry of Finance has said.

    According to the proposed allocation, PM Office’s daily expenditure stands at Rs2.36 million (Rs2,356,931) at 365 days a year, which contradicts the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government’s earlier claims of reducing expenses for austerity.

    The proposal to spend over Rs2 million a day from taxpayers’ money comes just months after dozens of cattle and excess luxury cars of the PM House were auctioned to save money.

    The development had come after PM Imran Khan, in his first address to the nation on August 19, announced the austerity drive and vowed to cut down on government expenses.

  • PM wants to make spiritualism a ‘super science’

    PM wants to make spiritualism a ‘super science’

    Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan has announced making rohaniyaat [spiritualism] a “super science”, saying that the doctrine needs research.

    “I had been thinking about creating this university for the past 23 years and telling the students about the Ideology of Pakistan,” he said while laying the foundation stone of Al-Qadir University in the Sohawa town of Jhelum district.

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    The premier further said the varsity was named after Abdul Qadir Jilani, who linked science and spirituality. “Research on spirituality will be conducted here,” he added.

    Here’s what Twitterati had to say about PM Imran’s statement:

    Meanwhile, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Vice President Maryam Nawaz also took a jibe at PM Imran.

    “There is craft in daubing. He who used to criticise [others] for reading off a paper was neither able to read out his own oath nor deliver a speech,” she tweeted.

    Maryam further said that he [PM Imran] reading off a paper was a spectacle, and so was he delivering an unprepared speech.