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Posts Tagged ‘NA-123’

NA-123 Belongs to Nawaz Sharif

By Rohail Butt • Mar 9th, 2010 • Category: Politics

Whatever strange dishes may be cooked by the opponents, the truth of the matter is that in NA-123 Lahore, the votebank only belongs to the PML-N. Hafiz Salman Butt may be hyper-active and Mian Hamid Miraj may have a clean reputed father, that doesn’t really stand them a chance to even intimidate any candidate with [...]



Badaltey Mausam

By M Mirza • Mar 9th, 2010 • Category: Features


Hafiz Salman Butt in NA-123

By Salman Mugsi • Mar 7th, 2010 • Category: Politics

Though Pakistan People’s Party’s only signifant leader in Lahore Jehangir Badar has opposed the candidature of the Hafiz Salman Butt his party is supporting the chap from the Jamat-e-Islami and this is the most strange thing for the Lahoris, as they still remember vividly the bitter and even violent political feud between Hafiz Salman Butt [...]



NA-123 (Lahore-VI) : Nawaz Sharif’s Choice for By-elections 2008 Pakistan

By Rohail Butt • Apr 6th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Lahore is the hometown of Mian Nawaz Sharif, the chief of PML-N. He was denied the opportunity to fight the general elections on 18th February alongside with his brother Mian Shahbaz Sharif on the orders of President Musharraf through a compromised Election Commission on flimsy grounds.
Though still he is not eligible to contest the by-elections, [...]