Nawaz Sharif - Himal Southasian (Page 2)

IRONIES CATCH UP WITH NAWAZ

The life sentence for Nawaz Sharif on charges of hijacking and terrorism, was accompanied by the surprise acquittal by the anti-terrorism court in Karachi of the other six accused. When

By The Editors

/ 31 Mar 2000

Peace and war

One year ago, the progress of a bus entering Pakistan from India was keenly followed by over a billion people across South Asia and closely monitored the world over. The

By Adnan Rehmat

/ 29 Feb 2000

CRACKDOWN

The suspense mounted as 16 November drew near. A month earlier, the new military ruler of Pakistan, Gen Pervez Musharraf, had warned all "willful" loan defaulters to repay

By Zaigham Khan

/ 30 Nov 1999

A house of my own

Mega projects and Nawaz Sharif seem to be made for each other. Sharif has to his credit a 16-billion-rupee yellow cab scheme and a 40-billion-rupee Lahore-Islamabad motorway. And now he

By Zaigham Khan

/ 30 Sep 1999

SHOOTING THE SHARIF

Credited for putting together almost all the anti-government political alliances in the last four decades, Nawabzada Nasrullah Khan, the wily old man of Pakistani politics, was at it again. Sporting

By Zaigham Khan

/ 31 Aug 1999

DANGER OF DESPOTISM

The biggest threat in recent times to peace and security in the South Asian region was averted by Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's unexpected air dash across the

By Beena Sarwar

/ 31 Jul 1999

Whose nationalism?

The Kargil mess may well lead to the use of Great Power influence in South Asia, something which New Delhi has resisted for decades For a military engagement which New

By Praful Bidwai

/ 30 Jun 1999

Massaging the official message

Mushahid Hussain is just doing his job. He stands out because he is a former journalist defending a government that is hounding the press. Pakistan's Information Minister Mushahid

By Khaled Ahmed

/ 31 May 1999

The news of a kidnapping

The house of Najam Sethi and Jugnu Mohsin, the couple who run The Friday Times newsweekly out of Lahore, was invaded on 8 May by men claiming to be from

By Rehan Ansari

/ 31 May 1999

The Nawaz Sharif government has armed itself with yet another imaginative law, enabling it to declare virtually any Pakistani a terrorist. Under the new Anti-Terrorist (Amendment) Ordinance promulgated on 27

By Zaigham Khan

/ 31 May 1999

VOTE OF OVERCONFIDENCE

The Collapse of the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government barely 13 months after coming to power has sent an unambiguous message to India's politicians: ultranationalism, hawkishness on matters of

By Praful Bidwai

/ 30 Apr 1999

JANG’S WAR

That a conflict was simmering between the Nawaz Sharif government and the Jang Group of Newspapers, became known to die Pakistani public only after Front-page announcements in two of the

By Zaigham Khan

/ 28 Feb 1999