Nawaz Sharif will be Alone in Next Long March
By Salman Mugsi • Feb 6th, 2010 • Category: Politics • 9 CommentsMian Nawaz Sharif is in for some real shocks of his life. He is taking the people of Pakistan, especially the people of Punjab for granted.
Every after two days, he threatens the government meekly with yet another long march. Sometimes, Nawaz Sharif cites the NRO, or then 17th amendment, and then about the implementation of the judiciary decisions. After the long march threat, Nawaz either go to London or just disappears from the scene.
His long march of March 2009 was a real success because people were with him and people had hopes with him. He was the replacement of the current regime and he was considered as a man who learned from the past and a man who could bring some change. But the way Nawaz Sharif has supported the Zardari regime, and the way he has played friendly opposition and have left the people on the mercy of wolves, shows that he is not different from rest of the lot.
Loosing seat in NA-21 Mansehra is a reminder to the Nawaz Sharif and his party. Their role in Pakistani politics is without any impression and they cannot even gather people from Lahore this time for the long march.
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Sorry if some of my learned friends’ feelings are injured – but fact speaks for itself. Nawaz Sharif is undoubtedly a popular leader of Northern Punjab as Altaf Hussain is unquestionably the most popular leader of Southern Sind. If Nawaz Sharif could gather like 400,000 marchers in Independence of Judiciary movement, there should not be any iota of doubt that on a single blind call of Altaf Hussain, not less than 2500,000 people would gather and march anywhere Altaf Hussain asks for.
Nawaz Sharif needs time to gain the unqualified support of establishment. This support is very necessary for him to manipulate elections in other three small provinces (as had been done in the past). Unfortunately, due to Army stand of neutrality this time, not much option remains for Nawaz Sharif. Zardari is corrupt or not is yet to be decided, but he has done one good thing. He has empowered the popular leaderships of provinces so much so that it is now very difficult for establishment to bring, by manipulation, these leaderships as runners up in the election.
However, it is a fact, Nawaz Sharif has somehow gained the support of media. It is yet to be seen if he could cash the judiciary’s unqualified support as some people are whispering judiciary is not pronouncing the judgment in Mehran Bank case in which an affidavit has been filed. In that affidavit, it has been averred among others Rs.25 Lacs to Nawaz Sharif and Rs.50 Lacs to Qazi Hussain Ahmed were given by ISI in 1988. Back to media, I do not think this unleashed propaganda against Zardari would make a big difference in election. Thanks to internet, no matter how much one sided projection is made on TV channels, the audi artem partem by internet media channels have stronger impact.
Khalid
Look below the plight of your popular leader. how much sincere is he with his country and countrymen
Nawaz and Shahbaz pay no tax
ISLAMABAD: The billionaire club of the Pakistani politicians, including the deposed prime minister Nawaz Sharif and his brother Shahbaz Sharif, does not pay any tax.
Despite having declared assets of Rs 676.8 million of the Sharif family, both the brothers filed a zero income tax and deficit wealth tax returns, last year. This very fact motivated donors to force the authorities to publish tax records of all the parliamentarians and senior bureaucrats, which is due now shortly.
Out of every 100 persons of this poor country of 140 million people, only one Pakistani is a taxpayer, and the tax to GDP ratio is not more than 10 per cent, against an average of 18 per cent for the third world countries.
Tax evasion is rampant and, generally, everyone who is some one in this country does not like to pay his or her tax. Agriculture sector is the best example. With its 25 per cent share in the gross domestic product of over Rs 3,000 billion, its share in income tax is mere few hundred million rupee. More than 90 per cent members of the electoral Houses, both at the federal and the provincial level, has a feudal and landlord background. So, they use all their powers to stay out of the tax net.
The industrialists used this provision by holding large agricultural farms to hide their taxable incomes. Traders or retailers, known as shutter power, have also been successful by shutting their business down whenever an attempt was made to tax their incomes.
So, it leaves the burden of tax only on the urban salaried class. This constrained revenue outlook forced the policy-makers in initial years of the 90s to introduce deductions at source on various income streams, including interest incomes, rental income, income of exporters, importers, suppliers, contractors, etc, in shape of withholding and presumptive taxes.
Fixed levies were also introduced either on ownership and trading in assets, like property and automobiles, or on consumption of services, like electricity and telephone. After failure of these attempts, another indirect mechanism of surcharges emerged, largely on petroleum products, and more recently on edible oils. Rather than transferring the benefits of falling prices to consumers, the government found it expedient to pick up the difference as a windfall in revenues.
The tax strategy for the fiscal 1998-99, remained weak and non-innovative that forced the multilateral donors to put their foot down by pressing the government to go for the value-added mode of sales tax. Removal of sectoral exemptions from GST, like services, electricity, gas and POL products has to be announced, and the retailers and fixed taxpayers were brought under a turnover tax regime to nab the potential tax evaders.
These measures were generally, revenue-neutral. Some of these measures were, however, revenue-oriented, like increase in gas and furnace oil prices, GST on packed/ branded food items, and introduction of turnover tax on retailers and fixed taxpayers.
During the caretaker regime of Moeen Qureshi, tax records of various leading politicians were leaked to the press. These records showed that majority of the politicians either filed zero income tax statements, or made partly contributions against their huge declared and undeclared assets. Benazir Bhutto, Farooq Leghari and others were also mentioned in such news reports.
The 11-member family of Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif holds a gross wealth of Rs 676.8 million (declared in tax returns). However, Nawaz and Shahbaz paid no income tax or wealth tax to the national exchequer.
Following the modern tradition of large industrial houses, the family of Nawaz Sharif also owns large agricultural farms. Nawaz Sharif himself owns two pieces of land at the Raiwind Road and Mandiali (Sheikhupura), containing 212 Produce Index Units (PIUs).
According to the tax statements of June 30, 1998, total income tax paid by the 11-member Sharif family was just Rs 0.25 million. The family also paid Rs 0.55 million as wealth tax and 0.13 million as agriculture tax raising the total tax payment of the family to Rs 0.94 million. This amount is just a peanut, keeping in view their business empire that actually runs into many billions.
The tax statements declared majority of the industrial concerns in losses and the income tax was computed largely on the salary paid to the directors of the group or on the dividend paid by Chaudhry Sugar Mills. The total income tax, wealth tax and agriculture tax paid by the family, with a gross worth of Rs 676.8 million, was just Rs 0.94 million or a little above 0.1 per cent of the total declared asset value of the family.
The 11-member family includes Mian Muhammad Sharif, Mrs Shamim Akhtar, Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif, Mrs Kulsoom Nawaz Sharif, Hussain Nawaz, Hassan Nawaz, Mian Shahbaz Sharif, Mrs Nusrat Shahbaz, Hamza Shahbaz, Mian Abbas Sharif and Mrs Sabiha Abbas. Majority of the assets were in the name of elders, minors and wives of the Sharifs.
The factories declared by the Sharif family show losses. These industrial units, as shown in the various tax returns include Chaudhry Sugar Mills, Ramzan Sugar Mills Ltd, Mehran Ramzan Textile Mills Ltd, Muhammad Baksh Textile Mills, Hamza Spinning Mills, Hudabiya Paper Mills, Hudabiya Engg (Pvt) Ltd, Hamza Board Mills, Kulsoom Textile Mills, Ittefaq Brothers (Pvt) Ltd, Ilyas Enterprises (Pvt) Ltd, Brothers Steel Ltd, Ittefaq Sugar Mills, Khalid Siraj Textile Industries, Ramzan Baksh Textile Mills, Ittefaq Textile Mills, Brothers Textile Mills, Ittefaq Foundries, Khalid Siraj Industries, Barkat Textile Mills, Abdul Aziz Textile Mills, Brothers Sugar Mills and Effective (Pvt) Ltd.
According to the documentary evidence, the deposed prime minister, Muhammad Nawaz Sharif with national tax number (NTN) has declared his income tax liability as ‘nil’ on June 30, 1998. His total net wealth (as declared) was Rs 2.1 million and total admissible debts were shown at Rs 6.4 million. So his net wealth, according to the tax statement (assets minus admissible debts), would go into deficit.
The income tax liability of Mrs Kulsoom Nawaz was also shown as ‘nil’. However, she declared a small amount of eight thousand rupee as tax on dividend from Chaudhry Sugar Mills where she had declared to hold 4,000 shares. The net asset value of Mrs Nawaz was shown at Rs 3.98 million. However, her net wealth was computed at Rs 32 thousand after adjusting admissible loans of Rs 3.95 million. So, she paid Rs 178 only as wealth tax for the year ending June 30, 1998.
The tax return of Mian Shahbaz Sharif shows one thousand rupee tax deducted on dividend received by him from Chaudhry Sugar Mills. He had declared to have 5,000 shares of the unit. Mian Shahbaz also filed a deficit tax return of Rs 4.5 million.
The Big Sharif-Mian Muhammad Sharif declared to have shares of Chaudhry Sugar Mills. Mian Sharif had paid Rs 50102 as his income liability. Father of the prime minister paid Rs 1.96 lac as wealth tax. He also owns 2834 PIUs agricultural land at Feroze Watoan Sheikhupura and Lahore. Mother of the prime minister also paid Rs 60 thousand income tax. She announced to have 18174 PIUs agricultural land in the rural area of Lahore. She paid Rs 131 thousand as agriculture income tax.
SOURCE: Jang-Group October 17, 1999, Karachi
AOM is right KHALID HUMAYUN has blind faith in Nwaz Sharif nothing else
A very very well written post AOM. In fact, it is a complete quality article armored with all facts and figures. If you permit me, I would like to save it on my computer as one of the favourite files. If I were to write on this subject, I could not have done better than you because of my lack of knowledge. Any how, kudos to you.
munirscarpio! I am not an admirer of Mr. Nawaz Sharif. My earlier post speaks for itself.
COMPANY DEFAULT AMOUNT IN RUPEES
ITTEFAQ FOUNDRIES (PVT) LTD 148,841,000
ITTEFAQ BROTHERS (PVT) LTD 909,386,000
BROTHERS STEEL MILL 97,852,000
ILYAS ENTERPRISES NOT KNOWN
FAROOQ BAKTH LTD NOT KNOWN
ITTEFAQ TEXTILE MILLS-I NOT KNOWN
ITTEFAQ TEXTILE MILLS-II NOT KNOWN
ITTEFAQ TEXTILE MILLS-II NOT KNOWN
BROTHERS TEXTILE MILLS LTD 7,400,000
KHALID SARTAJ TEXTILE MILLS LTD NOT KNOWN
KHALID SARTAJ INDUSTRIES (PVT) LTD NOT KNOWN
RAMZAN BAKSH TEXTILE MILLS LTD 200,119,000
BAKTH TEXTILE MILLS NOT KNOWN
ABDUL AZIZ TEXTILE LTD NOT KNOWN
ITTEFAQ SUGAR MILLS LTD 106,574,000
BROTHERS SUGAR MILLS LTD 15,000,000
RAMZAN SUGAR MILLS LTD 146,697,000
ITTEFAQ GROUP SERVICES (PVT) LTD NOT KNOWN
ITTEFAQ COLD STORAGE NOT KNOWN
ABBAS AND COMPANIES NOT KNOWN
SOURCE: Pakistan Election Tribunal, December 1, 1996
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31 references against Nawaz Sharif under his 1997 Ehtesab Act, some are:
Income tax evasion;
Wealth tax evasion;
Concealment of facts to evade property tax;
Opening false acounts;
Whitening of black money by amending laws;
Whitening of money through FEBCs;
Illegal appointments in PIA;
Abbotabad land scam;
Import of BMW cars in violation of laws;
Taking loans without fulfilling the legal requirements;
Concealment of property in the US;
Illegal appointments in the FIA;
US wheat purchase scam;
Murree land scam;
Irregular promotions in the FIA;
Forcing passports and money laundering;
Concealment of helicopter when filing assets;
Favourable treatment to Kohinoor Energy Ltd causing a Rs.45 crore loss;
Unlawful cash finance facility given to Brothers Sugar Mills;
Bribe offered to ANP Senator Qazi Mohammed Anwer;
Illegally appointing the chairman, CBR;
Causing a Rs.35 billion loss by writing off/rescheduling loans;
Relaxing import duty and amending laws to import luxury cars;
Utilizing funds from the national exchequer to bribe Maulana Sattar Niazi;
Plundering Rs.200 million from Jahez and Baitul Mal funds;
Making 130 political appointments in federal departments;
Relaxing export duty and rebate to transport sugar to India;
Withdrawal of case against Senator Islamuddin Shaikh
SOURCE: DAWN April 25, 1999, Karachi
@Khalid Hamyun:
Why is Altaf Hussain not coming back to Pakistan. He must be awfully lonely, as a single man living in his huge flat in London? Please write to him to come back and take over Karachi and finally Pakistan. He is the only one who has had the sense to take on the Mullahs. He should run for national office. He has the speech making ability.
@AOM.
Nawaz Sharif is not contesting the election because he considers himself Qaid-e-Azam material and membership of the Assembly where a third term as PM is not possible is below him. However, he will gladly takeover the presidency from Lucky Zardari.
Like they say in Pakistan.
“Kia Faraq Partha Hai” Generals have DHA and Corner plots. No body can question them for their sacrifices in defending our borders. Plots and houses built on them are payment for risking their lives in the defense of our home.
People of Pakistan are impressed by wealth. That is a fact
In Pakistan we have a system of reciprocity amongst crooks who have amassed large amounts of wealth. Once you join this club you are looked up to by all as a smart guy who is referred to as “Theek Thaak” and “First Class Aadmi Hai Yarh”.
Kia Baat Hai when people see them living it up at a very expensive hotel/restaurant. I have witnessed this in London and Washington.
Ordinary Pakistanis are in awe of their enormous wealth and flats in London.
“General Musharraf after purchasing his flat in London has also joined this club. It is worth noting that Nawaz Sharif has stopped targeting Musharaf since they are now both members of the same club, whose motto is “Live and Lets Live”. Life is too short. Of course the Saudi King has also helped in calming Nawaz down.
Altaf Hussain,Musharaf, Shaukat Aziz, Nawaz.Zardari, Chaudry’s of Gujarat, Hamayun Akhtar, Malik RAhaman, Mr Salman FArooqi, etc are all members of this prestigious club. Despite NRO and various lawsuits and FIR’s none of these gentlemen has been touched by anyone. They are enjoying life to the fullest. The suffer now and then for the suffering of the poor people of Pakistan while reclining in their posh living rooms or on the back seat of their BMW/Mercedes Bullet proof limo.
There set ups abroad maintained for their well deserved vacations from the “Sheedahs of Pakistan” who toil day and night to eat their daily bread.
Do these self serviced people and media has the courage to publish the loot and plunder of military
The only military in the world have Complete Khad industry, DHAs, uncountable agriculture land, no audit of any thing, luxurious cars, perks and plots after the job, 350 Govt sector organisations leadership (these organizations now on verge of default like steel mill, KESC, Wapda etc), duty free every thing, earning money selling Pakistanis and Afghanis even girls like Afia Siddique, 40 years government in Pakistanis, Now a days Musharraf drinking and distributing money on kanjries in UK
I think above people deserve people like Mushrarraf ?
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