Napoleon’s disease and a collegemate

I mean, he didn’t present himself for arrest, and there were some mean-spirited people who wanted to know why he was so anxious to get people arrested when he was not willing to get arrested himself.

Meanwhile, TV footage has captured police officers in Islamabad and Punjab police uniforms being restrained by PTI workers outside Khan’s residence. On February 28, Additional District and Sessions Judge Zafar Iqbal issued non-bailable arrest warrants for the former prime minister after he failed to appear in court for indictment.

On that day, Khan had four court hearings, and he was granted bail in three of them.

The warrant cited Khan’s repeated failure to appear in court and accused him of picking and choosing which cases and courts he would attend, with this particular case not being a priority.

The warrant further demanded that the accused be summoned through a non-bailable arrest warrant for March 7.

Responding to the warrant issuance, Fawad Chaudhry, senior vice president of the party, tweet the document pertains solely to attendance, and the police’s insistence on effecting an arrest is illegal.

It seems that the Jail Bharo Tehrik was not as serious as the 2014 dharna. That was ended with the APS Peshawar massacre, the Jail Bharo Tehrik was ended aft6er the Supreme Court verdict stating the obvious: when an assembly is dissolved, elections must follow in 90 days. It is true that the dharna had run out of steam when it was called off, and Imran Khan was casting about for excuses to bring it to an end. But it had not become a joke, which the Jail Bharo Tehrik had been, from the get-go. Once again, Imran proved right.

I wonder now how those arrested on the first day are doing. In particular, I wonder how Makhdoom Shah Mahmud

Qureshi is holding up. It took the Jail Bharto Tehrik for it to be disclosed in court that he suffers from piles.

That put me in mind of a nickname that was inflicted on a fellow who was a year senior to me in college, Maulvi Bawaseer. He was thus ennobled because a) he had a beard and b) because he had once in an unguarded moment admitted to some classmates that he was a martyr to them.

What is one supposed to call, Qureshi, Makhdoom Bawaseer? I don’t quite see why, but I was irresistibly reminded of the advertisements that were daubed on so many walls, all over the city, and on roads outside it, for a remedy for ‘Khooni Bawaseer’. The remedy was not mentioned in words as prominently as the disease. I presume Makhdoom Sahib has avoided that particular complication. However, he should not be ashamed of the disease, for one of his fellow sufferers was Napoleon. He wasn’t a very healthy man, for he also had a bad gastric ulcer. Do you remember his most famous pose? With one hand in his coat? Well, that was because he used to get some relief by pressing bon the painful spot. Ask a doctor, and he will tell you served by putting welfare of people at the center of public policy, he added.

‘PM condoles loss of lives in traffic accident’

Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif on Sunday expressed grief and sorrow over the traffic accident near DaraZinda in Dera Ismail Khan.

The prime minister condoled with the bereaved families and prayed Allah Almighty to elevate the ranks of the deceased in paradise. He also prayed for the early recovery of the injured. Meanwhile, the PM directed the provision of all possible medical assistance to the injured.

pti to challenge ‘controversial’ naB boss appointment

LAHORE Staff RepoRt

The appointment of retired Lt. Gen. Nazir Ahmad Butt as the new chairman of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) for a three-year term has sparked controversy, with Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Omar Sarfaraz Cheema announcing that his party plans to challenge the appointment in court. The former governor of Punjab argued that the appointment was illegitimate, given that the National Assembly speaker allowed PTI dissident Raja Riaz Ahmad to continue as the opposition leader, despite no longer having majority support from the opposition benches. Cheema pointed out that Riaz’s confession of being an aspirant for a ticket from the ruling PML-N in the upcoming elections further undermines his legitimacy. The PTI had previously written to the National Assembly speaker requesting the appointment of PTI deputy chairman Shah Mehmood Qureshi as the opposition leader, but the request was denied. Cheema believes that this decision, along with Ahmad’s questionable status as opposition leader, taints the appointment of the new NAB chairman and warrants a challenge in court.

‘Disgruntled’ hamza may return next week

LAHORE Staff RepoRt that you have to be pretty bad for pressing it to give your relief. Well, at least no one has claimed an ulcer as grounds for bail.

Hamza Shehbaz, vice president of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), is set to return to Pakistan next week after spending two and a half months in the US, his party said. According to media reports, it has not been decided whether Hamza and his cousin Maryam Nawaz will run the party’s election campaign together in the upcoming general elections in Punjab. Hamza, the son of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, previously served as the Punjab chief minister from April 30 to July 26 last year. He had also been a member of the National Assembly from June 2008 to May 2018 and a member of the Punjab Assembly from August 2018 to January 2023. It is rumoured that Hamza may be given important responsibilities upon his return to Pakistan, although it is unclear what those responsibilities may be. He had flown to the US in protest against some decisions made by the party leadership, and has been away from politics since then. The upcoming general elections in Punjab are expected to be closely contested, and Hamza’s return is likely to have a significant impact on the party’s election strategy.

Perhaps the PTI should revise its attitudes towards bails. For a start, mo one dresses for the part. No yellow qameezes with blue polka dots, no colourful dhotis, no pumps without benefit of socks, no fright wigs, no warts on the cheek. How do they expect to get bail if they don’t look the part?

Of course, it’s all political persecution.

Like is happening in India, where the Delhi Deputy CM, a stalwarts of the Aam Admi Party, has been nabbed for corruption. even though the AAP, like the PTI, had campaigned to get rid of corruption. The BJP is bent on making up charges, just like the ones bout the Toshakhana watches.

The government is focusing on nonissues, instead of dealing with real issues, like the Barkhan IeD blast, which probably got something to do with the private prison of Abdur Rehman Khetran.

Though I would be very surprised if the struggle for the Sardar-ship of the tribe, did not figure, if only as a motive for the last murder which revealed through autopsy, where the body was not that of Khan Muhammad Marri’s wife, but of a young woman criminally assaulted, who was shot dead, and over whose face acid was poured. Sounds like someone didn’t want to get caught. Sounds like the same motive was at work in the butchering of Kong Kong socialite Abby Choi, whose body parts were found in a fridge, and whose head, torso and hands are still missing. Among the suspects is her former father-in-law, an ex-cop. I think that makes sense, because an ex-cop would want the corpse dismembered and never found. You get off when the prosecution can’t prove anybody dies.