news link is PML-N seeks new national policy on terror war -DAWN - Top Stories; October 20, 2008
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LAHORE, Oct 19: PML-N chief Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif and his younger brother and Punjab chief minister Mian Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif held talks on Sunday to finalise Mr Nawaz’s letter to Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani and a power sharing formula with the PPP in the province.
I THINK MR.NAWAZ SHOULD WRITE IT HIMSELF.
The meeting was held at the Raiwind residence of the Sharifs.
AH WHERELSE, THEY HAVE GOT THEMSELVES A WONDERFUL PLACE THERE
Party sources said that in the six-point letter, to be delivered to Mr Gilani shortly, the federal government had been told that that the issue of terrorism in tribal areas could not be tackled without a new national policy, taking on board all political parties.
JUST SIX POINTS? COME ON SHARIFS, YOU COULD DO BETTER.
AND NEW NATIONAL POLICY? COULD THEY BE MORE GENERIC?
Seeking details of alleged agreements signed by former president Gen Pervez Muhsarraf with the US regarding the war on terror, the PML-N leaders asked the government not to make people of Fata a victim of bombing and hold talks with those tribesmen who had not taken up arms against the government.
YEAH, THOSE AGREEMENTS MUST HAVE LOOPHOLES ALLOWING LIMITED SUICIDE BOMBINGS. GENIOUS.
It has vehemently opposed the government’s plans to approach the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank to tackle the financial crisis, urging rulers to depend on the country’s resources by forming a national strategy.
OH NATIONAL STRATEGY? SO WE NEED A NATIONAL POLICY AS WELL AS NATIONAL STRATEGY. YOU ARE KILLING ME.
The officials said that former finance minister Ishaq Dar had told the Sharifs that Pakistan had a capability to stand on its own and did not need the IMF and the World Bank’s.
SURE. WE SHOULD TAKE HIS WORD. WHO IS HIM BY THE WAY?
The letter would contain the PML-N’s demand of reinstatement of deposed chief justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry.
PERHAPS THE ONLY SPECIFICS IN THE LETTER
The Sharifs also discussed the option of tabling a resolution, in collaboration with some other parliamentary parties particularly the Jamaat-i-Islami in the National Assembly, asking the government to review its war on terror policy. A meeting of parliamentarians of PML-N and Jamaat-i-Islami is expected in Islamabad on Tuesday to frame a joint resolution for the purpose.
YEAH, JAMAAT? CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT THEM, CAN YOU.
The meeting also discussed the souring relationship with the federal government in the wake of the PPP demand for a “40 per cent share” in the Punjab government.
WHY NOT GIVE THAT 40 PER CENT SHARE TO JAMAAT?
The sources said the meeting had rejected the demand, but Mr Nawaz had asked Mr Shahbaz to keep the alliance with the PPP in the province intact.
MR. SHAHBAZ, THE SECOND MOST POWERFUL PERSON IN PMLN, CANNOT DARE GO AGAINST HIS BIG BROTHER. DEMOCRACY AT ITS BEST.