Cutting the wrong branch?
Daily Jang (22 May 2017) quoted Minister for Railways Saad Rafique as saying that PTI chief Imran Khan was cutting the branch of democracy upon which he himself was perched.
The real deal…
According to Daily Jang (22 May 2017), the leader of the opposition in the National Assembly Khurshid Shah is of the view that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has harmed the federation and that the foreign policy of the country is being run by Indian Prime Minister Modi and Indian tycoon Sajjan Jindal.
Nisar’s limits…
Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar was quoted by Daily Jang (24 May 2017) as saying that no restrictions were being placed on freedom of expression but that no democratic country could allow full freedom (maadar piddar aazaadi) on social media.
Trump’s troubles - I
Daily Jang (25 May 2017) stated that First Lady of the US Melania Trump refused to take her husband’s hand once again in Rome, Italy – after a similar situation during her visit to Israel with the President.
Sheikh Rasheed: you can’t afford him
The leader of the Awami Muslim League, Sheikh Rasheed, commented on efforts which, he claims, have been made to silence his voice. According to Daily Dunya (26 May 2017), Sheikh Rasheed stated that he had been offered Rs. 1 crore (Rs. 10 million) every month for not appearing on TV talk shows, and his mic has been shut down in the Assembly.
Trump’s troubles - II
According to Daily Nawa-i-Waqt (26 May 2017), soon after First Lady Melania Trump, Pope Francis too rebuffed the hand of US President Donald Trump!
Placebo budget?
Daily Dunya (27 May 2017), in its analysis of the last budget presented by the current PML-N administration, stated that the budget could be compared to a homeopathic medicine: which appears to have no immediate benefits nor any harm to the already miserable population.
“Happy now?”
According to Daily Dunya (27 May 2017), Afghan singing star Aryana Saeed took to social media to burn her dress which became controversial after she wore it in May for a performance in Paris. She referred to the storm of negative comments from religious figures in Afghanistan and on social media, saying that if people thought her dress was the biggest problem in the country, she was burning it for them.
PTI: putting figures on it
Daily Express (25 May 2017) quoted leaders of the PTI as saying that the ruling PML-N party was attempting to buy their people and had set aside Rs. 80 lakh (Rs. 8 million) to buy one individual. The PTI’s Naeem-ul-Haq, in his comments on Nawaz Sharif’s government, stated that the Prime Minister was looking to distract people’s attention and that corruption was taking place to the amount of Rs. 7 billion every day.
Leading the charge
It was reported in Daily Dunya (28 May 2017) that as a form of protest against power cuts and loadshedding in Peshawar and Malakand, PTI workers led by members of the Provincial Assembly in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa besieged a grid-station and a WAPDA office, resulting in clashes and hostile exchanges when authorities attempted to clear the sites.