This phenomenon is actually mind-boggling. How a person with such meagre intellectual and leadership talent able to run the most successful election campaingn, without a sympathy vote or support from establishment to spring him forward.
The anti-Mush wave is stronger than pro-PPP wave after BB's assassination. Nawaz's campaign was based around issues, mainly targeting the urban areas of Punjab. His call resonated with majority in the urban areas. I too voted for him and were it not for his clear stand on judiciary my vote would've gone somewhere else. Aitezaz himself said in an interview recently that PPP got 40-50 seats less than it should have simply because Nawaz Shareef ran a better campaign circling around the judiciary issue.
The anti-Mush wave is stronger than pro-PPP wave after BB's assassination. Nawaz's campaign was based around issues, mainly targeting the urban areas of Punjab. His call resonated with majority in the urban areas. I too voted for him and were it not for his clear stand on judiciary my vote would've gone somewhere else. Aitezaz himself said in an interview recently that PPP got 40-50 seats less than it should have simply because Nawaz Shareef ran a better campaign circling around the judiciary issue.
That is true.
Except PML-Q and MQM, pretty much all political parties were vying for the anti-Musharraf vote. I think PML-N grabbed it with the most success. It takes a lot of organization to contest elections at such scale, and by all accounts PML-N's organization was in shambles while Sharif brothers were exiled. This was blantantly exposed when not even a handful of people were able to show up at the Islamabad airport when Nawaz tried to enter Pakistan unsuccessfully the first time.
Mian Nawaz Sharif is a man of average intellect, a goofy but he gets enormous credit for reorganising his party at such short notice (he returned in late Nov. barely a month or so before the election) and his PML-N doing better in the polls than expected without any sympathy vote and without any help from the establishment. He only won NA seats in Punjab but his party still came a comfortable 2nd in the polls. I guess it was his stand on judiciary (for which Immi and Aitzaz get indirect credit) that persuaded the voters esp. the lawyers to vote for his party.
The anti-Mush wave is stronger than pro-PPP wave after BB's assassination. Nawaz's campaign was based around issues, mainly targeting the urban areas of Punjab. His call resonated with majority in the urban areas. I too voted for him and were it not for his clear stand on judiciary my vote would've gone somewhere else. Aitezaz himself said in an interview recently that PPP got 40-50 seats less than it should have simply because Nawaz Shareef ran a better campaign circling around the judiciary issue.
If that is true, please make me understand why MQM had +2 seats. I'm not ruling out that anti-Mush sentiments are high as ever, but there is also a wish for political changes.
Lockjaw, It was the first for Pakistan. Believe it or not the existing infrastructure lovingly known as GT road was built by the british in 1800s. So why no shrewd politician before thought of this but a businessman like Nawaz Sharif? You tell me.
Mix this with how things never finish in Pakistan, how plans never execute, how every worker is lazy and a haram khor in Pakistan. This was a risky investment even from a business standpoint. Thus having the gonads part.
My reference wasn't an exhaustive dissertation into Nawaz sharif's accomplishments. Just 2 things that I can recall easily as major accomplishments.
Well, having Super highways or Motorways in Pakistan is not Nawaz idea. Actually Nawaz did not knew the word Politics when this concept came to Pakistan. That is different matter that being a super class liar, Nawaz claims everything to his name. I sometime wonder that one day he would start claiming that Shalimar Bagh and Minar-e-Pakistan was his idea and he built it. The worse thing is that, unfortunately Pakistanis are so ignorant that they would believe him too :)
First motorway like road was built in Pakistan when even in 'western countries' there were few motorways. It is called Super Highway (around 90 miles long road) that started during Ayub Khan time and got completed during Yahya Khan time when Karachi and Hyderabad got connected in April 1970. The road was non-stop journey, no roundabout, no traffic lights, and was from Karachi to Hyderabad. It reduced the journey time from several hours and over 100 miles using National highway (journey use to get started in Karachi from Drig road, today it is called Shahrah-e-Faisal) to less than one hour using Super Highway, as road was smooth without any stoppages and there was no speed limit on the road.
Spread of Super Highways and Motorways should have started in Pakistan after Super Highway was built in Pakistan from Karachi to Hyderabad. Unfortunately, when Bhutto came to power government priority got changed from building infrastructures and letting private sectors industrialise Pakistan to nationalisation and destroying industrialisation so that feudalism can survive in Pakistan (that most Pakistani politicians like to do and Bhutto did very cunningly).
Today it is same road (Super highway) that has 4 lanes is getting changed into M9 motorway with 6 lanes.
....which are mainly flowing into PA private limited....you see Its a never ending circle. Mafia PA needs to understand, we need proper democracy not dictators as throne occupiers.
“On the development front, Nawaz Sharif completed the construction of South Asia’s longest motorway, the 367 km M2, linking Lahore and Islamabad. The motorway, which was initiated during Nawaz Sharif’s first term, was inaugurated in November 1997 and was constructed at a cost of Rs 37.5 billion.”
