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Marvi to join PML-N

LAHORE, March 3: Pakistan Muslim League-Q former MNA Marvi Memon has decided to join the rival faction of her party, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz.

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Marvi to join PML-N today

LAHORE – Former PML-Q MNA Marvi Memon will formally announce to join PML-N on Sunday (today).
Elected on PML-Q ticket in 2008 elections, the former parliamentarian will meet PML-N President Muhammad Ex Prime minister Mian Nawaz Sharifat Raiwind today following which both will address the media persons wherein Marvi will formally make public her decision of joining the PML-N.
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Marvi Memon picks PML-N over PTI tsunami

LAHORE: Putting an end to rumours of joining Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) , Marvi Memon has picked  Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz (PML-N) over the tsunami and will formally announce her decision on Sunday.

Memon is an ex-MNA and former member of the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid.

An SMS from Dr Asif Kirmani, Nawaz Sharif’s political secretary, states that Memon will meet the party chief in Raiwand tomorrow and will make the announcement at a press conference around 10:30am.

The decision brings an end to much speculation on which political party Marvi Memon will join after she quit PML-Q. There had been speculation that she might join Imran Khan’s PTI after she attended a couple of high-profile party events.

Memon was also present at the PTI rally in Ghotki where former foreign minister and ex-Pakistan Peoples Party leader Shah Mehmood Qureshi had announced that he was joining the party.

It had been reported that after her resignation in June last year, PML-N and PTI had approached Memon to join their ranks.

Memon has been a vocal campaigner for human rights and development, both during her tenure as MNA and after her resignation, and she has taken up several high-profile cases, including the Airblue crash in 2010. She is a vociferous critic of the current government and its policies and tends to take a populist stance on issues.

AirBlue crash case: Defence ministry to carry out fresh probe

The ministry of defence informed the court that in compliance with the last hearing of the court, the report will be compiled within 90 days.

A two-member bench, headed by PHC Chief Justice Dost Muhammad Khan, was hearing the case.

The federal government informed the court that a notification was issued for the probe and that within the next 24 hours, the defence ministry will nominate experts for a 10-member committee headed by foreign air crash investigation officers.

The defence ministry informed the court that it had taken Rs30 million in order to issue succession certificates of Rs500,000 each to compensate the heirs of the victims of the crash, adding that a letter was written to the registrars of Sindh High Court and Islamabad High Court to assign a senior civil judge each to issue the certificates within 15 days.

The defence ministry also told the court that it had earlier asked the ministry of finance to release the funds and was told to ask the Maritime Security Agency for it.

During the last hearing of the case, the PHC had termed the investigation ‘incomplete’. The petitioners of the case include former MNA Marvi Memon as well as victims’ families.

“It was directed that an extensive inquiry be carried out by an inquiry team headed by international experts,” Chief Justice Dost Muhammad Khan said, adding that the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) and the government of Pakistan shall have no control over the team that will now reinvestigate the tragedy.

Representatives for the ministries of defence and law appeared before the court. However, the secretaries for both ministries significantly remained absent – despite notices issued to both of them during the last hearing.

The chief justice said the government was asked to pay Rs.0.5 million while the AirBlue administration was to pay Rs5 million per family – the money is yet to be paid, however.

“These people have very little respect for the courts, nobody is working honestly in this country,” the CJ remarked.

“You’ve just come here on a pleasure trip. We can issue arrest warrants,” Justice Khan warned Javed Iqbal, a legal consultant for the law department.

The chief justice also said that the court had directed the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) to get ICAO experts to check all aircraft, since many of the planes in use are outdated and there are reports that they are unsafe. These are yet to be checked.

“This is a matter of grave concern and if any mishap occurs, the government and authorities will be responsible,” Justice Khan remarked.

DNA tests

The petitioners’ counsel informed the court that Pakistan Institute of Medical Science (PIMS) had conducted DNA tests after which all the bodies of the victims had been buried in a single grave. He added that PIMS had referred the petitioners to Kahuta Research Laboratories (KRL) for conducting further tests. The KRL administration, however, asked for a sum of Rs4.5 million to carry out the job.

The PHC summoned the PIMS chief executive for the next hearing and ordered the government and AirBlue administration to bear all the charges for conducting the DNA tests.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 22^nd, 2012.

AirBlue crash: New probe to be carried out, Defence Ministry tells PHC

PESHAWAR: The Defence Ministry, while informing the Peshawar High Court about the progress of the AirBlue crash on Tuesday, said that it has directed the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) to carry out a new investigation.

The Ministry of Defence informed the court that in compliance with the last hearing of the court, the report will be compiled within 90 days.

A two-member bench headed by Chief Justice PHC Dost Muhammad Khan was hearing the case.

The federal government informed the court that a notification was issued for the probe and that within the next 24 hours, the Defence Ministry will nominate experts for a 10-member committee headed by foreign air crash investigation officers.

The Defence Ministry informed the court that it had taken Rs30 million in order to issue succession certificates of Rs500,000 each to compensate the heirs of the victims of the crash, adding that a letter was written to the registrars of Sindh High Court and Islamabad High Court to assign a senior civil judge from each court to issue the certificates within 15 days.

The Defence Ministry also told the court that it had earlier asked the Ministry of Finance to release the funds and was told to ask the Maritime Security Agency for it.

Earlier, in December, the PHC had ordered AirBlue that compensation of Rs5 million should be made to each family within the deadline ending on March 20.

Representatives of AirBlue informed the court that till now, families of 72 victims have been compensated and 10 people more will be compensated soon, adding that the remaining 56 people who have sued AirBlue for higher claims will only be compensated once they withdraw the cases filed against the airline.

The PHC observed that the remaining heirs should be compensated regardless of the cases.

The court also directed AirBlue and Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS), carrying out the DNA tests, that all the reports should be presented before the court in the next hearing on March 27.

The PHC had rejected the inquiry report conducted by the CAA and had termed it ‘incomplete.’ The court had also issued contempt notices to federal secretaries for law and defence for their failure to meet court orders in the case.

The case was filed by MNA Marvi Memon and the victims’ families which had said that the interrogation seemed unsatisfactory and unattended from many aspects.

(With additional reporting from our correspondent Azam Khan.)

Marvi requests SC to order revival of flood commission

  ISLAMABAD: Former PML-Q legislator Marvi Memon requested the Supreme Court on Tuesday to order the revival of the Flood Inquiry Commission with a view to determining if the government had failed to carry out its recommendations and which could have resulted in the recent flooding in Sindh. She alleged that the flood in Sindh [...]

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Federal, Sindh govt have lost constitutional right to remain in power: Marvi Memon

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Former member of the National Assembly and flamboyant political leader from Sindh Marvi Memon has said that the present government has lost its legal and constitutional right to remain in power as it failed to implement the recommendations of the Flood Commission at the Centre and in Sindh province.
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Marvi urges people to believe in change

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ISLAMABAD – Former MNA from PML-Q Marvi Memon, who resigned after her party joined hands with ruling PPP, launched her book “My Parliamentary Diaries” here on Thursday during a ceremony.
The ceremony was attended by a number of legislators and politicians including Javed Hashmi, Ayaz Ameer and Khawaja Saad Rafique…

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Marvi Memon’s book launch today

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ISLAMABAD (PR) – Marvi Memon’s book ‘Parliamentary Diaries’ is being launched at Marriot Hotel in Islamabad at 5:00 pm today (Thursday). The book largely comprises of her reflections on the days she served as a PML-Q parliamentarian in the National Assembly.
Following is the text of Introduction Chapter of ‘Parliamentary…

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Marvi invited to join PTI

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ISLAMABAD – Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has offered Marvi Memon, who has recently resigned from her membership of PML-Q as well as the Parliament, to join PTI as head of Gilgit-Baltistan and AJK chapter affairs.
A top-tier PTI leader confirmed the news expressing hope that Marvi would be in PTI within…

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NA speaker accepts Marvi’s resignation

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The speaker of the National Assembly has accepted resignation of PML-Q MNA Marvi Memon. Following Marvi Memon’s resignation, National Assembly speaker Dr Fahmida Mirza declared the seat vacant with effect from June 22. Marvi Memon was elected from Punjab on the reserved seats for women. She tendered her resignation as…

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Marvi Memon resigns from NA, PML-Q

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Marvi Memon has resigned from her seat in the National Assembly and from the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q).
Speaking to the media, Marvi Memon said that she took the decision in protest of the PML-Q joining the government and in opposition of the budget which was against the aspirations of…

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Marvi Memon likely to join PTI

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ISLAMABAD (Online) – PML-Q legislator Marvi Memon has formally contacted Imran Khan for joining Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf after being disappointed over her party’s joining of the government and her differences with Chaudhry brothers.
Well-placed sources said Chaudhry brothers tried their best to woo Marvi Memon back to party but failed. On…

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Marvi also faces leadership flak

ISLAMABAD, June 6: MNA Marvi Memon has become the fourth female legislator of the PML-Q to attract disciplinary action from the male-dominated party leadership for her rebellious ways. Her misdeed? She tore up a budget document, poured them on the desk of the prime minister and then joined the PML-N`s rowdy show in the National [...]

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Life term for acid-throwers

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ISLAMABAD – The National Assembly on Tuesday unanimously passed The Acid Control and Acid Crime Prevention Bill 2010, which provides protection against acid crimes, and rehabilitation of compensation for victims of acid crimes.
As the House commenced Private Members Day, MNA Marvi Memon moved the bill to amend various Acts…

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A union on the rocks from the get-go

NO Will and Kate are the PPP and the PML-Q. But the royal ceremony held in Westminster Abbey and the manifestly grimier political marriage in Punjab do have at least one thing in common: a high-stakes bet on the future.

Here in Pakistan, though, there is no romance or misty-eyed hopes for the future. It’s all raw politics and power.

“The politics of ideology has been dead since ’96, if not ’90,” a candid Faisal Saleh Hayat admitted. “Look at the manifestos of the major parties, the economic agendas and the social agendas are the same. A few full-stops and commas here and there, some pluses and minuses, there’s little difference.”

Saleh Hayat was less forthcoming, though, about his own reasons for looking to get past the long-running bitter feud between himself and the Bhutto-Zardaris. “Irrespective of personal opinion, I go with what the party says,” said the PML-Q leader who was once a close confidant of Benazir Bhutto.

For a more frank appraisal of Saleh Hayat’s possible motivations, a former colleague in the Musharraf government chipped in: “The PPP needed 25 (MNAs). The Chaudhrys thought they had the number, but came up a few short. So they were forced to go back and try and rope in people like Faisal. He’ll probably look for (the Ministry of) Water and Power or something like that in the run-up to the next election.”

VERBAL ACROBATICS: The Zardari-led PPP’s strategy to get the budget passed, complete its term in office and to give the party a shot at victory in the next election has set off some breathtaking verbal acrobatics as the potential winners and losers in the PPP-PML-Q alliance begin to take stock.

Here’s Qamar Zaman Kaira on the ‘Qatil League’: “As far as that claim goes, that was when Musharraf was in-charge. The claims associated with BB about Pervaiz Elahi, we have looked and not found anything.”

Here’s Riaz Husain Pirzada, a PML-Q MNA from Bahawalpur rumoured to be in line for a senior post, suddenly remembering global economic linkages: “Yes, inflation is a big problem, but it’s tied to the worldwide price of oil and the price is up because of all that is going on in the world.”

Here’s Abida Hussain, commenting on the rumour that Faisal Saleh Hayat’s inclusion in the deal meant her and possibly her family’s ouster from electoral politics: “We have no intentions of switching parties, we’re staying put. If I have to be scalped, so be it. I admire the President’s resolve for being able to coral them (the PML-Q).”

And here’s Faisal Saleh Hayat swatting away the rumour that Abida Hussain and her family’s heads were the price he demanded for joining the PPP-PML-Q alliance: “It’s hilarious, all of this stuff on news tickers. When we discussed seat-to-seat adjustments (with the PPP), I specifically said that on three seats we want no adjustment.”

“If Abida Husain wants to fight me or Sughra Imam wants to contest against my brother or Fakhar Imam against Raza Hayat Hiraj in Khanewal, we welcome it,” the pugnacious Saleh Hayat claimed.

SEAT ADJUSTMENT: Some rivalries may prove more difficult to resolve when it comes to seat adjustments.

“Gujrat is key for the Chaudhrys and so is an area like Mandi Bahauddin,” explained Amir Mateen, a political analyst. “But there are some real heavyweights there on both sides. What will people like Kaira and Ghazanfar Gul and Ahmed Mukhtar say if asked to step aside for the Chaudhrys?”

Kaira was tight-lipped about his fate, saying: “If the party asks for a seat, I will surrender it, no problem.”

But the PPP information secretary from Gujrat added: “Right now, the Q-League is just joining the government. An electoral alliance is a subsequent thing and we will have to wait and see how that develops.”

Kaira also flagged his own seat-winning potential: “When the Chaudhrys were in power, when they had the prime minister and chief minister’s seats, we opposed them and still won seats.”

Rifts in Q-League: The problems are arguably even bigger on the Q-League’s side. There are already so many factions in
the party that it is hard to keep track of any given day. But a further division has emerged in recent days: between the directly elected constituency politicians and the non-constituency members elected on reserved or Senate seats, such as Mushahid Husain, Wasim Sajjad and Marvi Memon.

A PML-Q insider said: “The ones in electoral politics, who have constituencies, are asking, ‘If we don’t join the PPP, what do we do? We can’t have an understanding with PML-N because they won’t accept us. So we have to look for other alliances.’”

The insider continued, “On the other side, some are arguing that what we should do is, we don’t let the government fall, we support it from the outside. Otherwise elections will be held and no party will get a majority. Elections don’t suit the PML-Q right now.”

For others in the Q-League, the calculation is even more complicated.

Awais Leghari, recently elected PML-Q MNA from DG Khan and scion of the Leghari family bitterly opposed to the Bhutto-Zardaris, had this to say about his party’s alliance with the PPP: “The view of the Legharis is absolutely clear. We told the Chaudhrys we don’t want any ministries, we don’t want any power-sharing, we just want the process of creating a new province in south Punjab, the passage of a constitutional amendment in parliament, to be initiated.”

But the Legharis’ position of conditionally supporting the alliance is being interpreted less magnanimously in some quarters in Punjab. “The Legharis are looking for a face-saving exit. They think Zardari will throw them overboard if they join, which is probably true,” a Lahore-based political analyst said.

The demand for a province in southern Punjab was simply a populist ploy to keep the Chaudhrys from invoking the defection clause against the Legharis, according to the analyst.

So, with the challenges many and the possibility of resistance from myriad quarters, can Pakistan’s latest political union of convenience possibly last?

Few appear to believe it can. After all, the characters involved, particularly on the PML-Q side of the deal, have a reputation as political vagabonds and carpet-baggers, migrating from party to party and constituency to constituency over the last couple of decades.

According to Amir Mateen, “There are lots of imponderables and variables. They’ll get through the budget, but we’ll have to see before the elections. And really, it’s more than the elections, there being so many personal enmities, etc. It looks tough.”

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Mushahid for joint strategy to meet challenges

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ISLAMABAD – PML-Q Secretary General Mushahid Hussain Sayed Monday demanded for broad-based consensus between all the political parties for evolving a joint strategy on four major challenges including economy, energy, education and terrorism.
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