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Pakistan Oppn parties mull bringing no-confidence motion against Khan govt
Pakistan PM Imran Khan (Photo: Reuters)
Pakistan opposition parties have started to intensify their efforts against the ruling Imran Khan government including the contemplation of a no-confidence motion.
Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) Chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman on Wednesday announced that a meeting of the senior leadership of the anti-government Opposition alliance will decide to be held on January 25, to look at the option of a no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Imran Khan, according to News International.
Addressing a press conference, flanked by the Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Shahbaz Sharif, Fazl said: "The anti-government alliance parties are considering options for the immediate dismissal of the incumbent government."
"We appeal to the coalition parties of the government to think in the national interest of Pakistan and about the common man," Fazl said.
The Jamiat Ulema-e Islam chief said that the long march announced against the government has "become inevitable" and the PDM will march towards the capital on March 23 in a bid to oust the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf(PTI) led government.
He, however, added that the long march plan will be finalized during the all-party session scheduled on January 25.
"The government does not realize the grievances of the common man," he said.
"We do not give Prime Minister Imran Khan and his government the right to re-colonize an independent state," he added.
The PDM chief also spoke of the upcoming second phase of local government polls in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Speaking to the media prior to Fazl, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leader Shahbaz Sharif said that in the 74-year history of Pakistan, the PTI government is the most incompetent one to ever come to power adding that the country is undergoing the "most difficult period.
The PML-N president said that during his meeting with Fazl, discussed a no-confidence motion against the prime minister and that this option will be further highlighted in the meeting later this month.
"The government is prioritizing the interests and agendas of internationalinstitutions over the interests of Pakistani citizens," he said.
Pakistan PM Imran Khan (Photo: Reuters)
Pakistan opposition parties have started to intensify their efforts against the ruling Imran Khan government including the contemplation of a no-confidence motion.
Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) Chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman on Wednesday announced that a meeting of the senior leadership of the anti-government Opposition alliance will decide to be held on January 25, to look at the option of a no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Imran Khan, according to News International.
Addressing a press conference, flanked by the Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Shahbaz Sharif, Fazl said: "The anti-government alliance parties are considering options for the immediate dismissal of the incumbent government."
"We appeal to the coalition parties of the government to think in the national interest of Pakistan and about the common man," Fazl said.
The Jamiat Ulema-e Islam chief said that the long march announced against the government has "become inevitable" and the PDM will march towards the capital on March 23 in a bid to oust the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf(PTI) led government.
He, however, added that the long march plan will be finalized during the all-party session scheduled on January 25.
"The government does not realize the grievances of the common man," he said.
"We do not give Prime Minister Imran Khan and his government the right to re-colonize an independent state," he added.
The PDM chief also spoke of the upcoming second phase of local government polls in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Speaking to the media prior to Fazl, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leader Shahbaz Sharif said that in the 74-year history of Pakistan, the PTI government is the most incompetent one to ever come to power adding that the country is undergoing the "most difficult period.
The PML-N president said that during his meeting with Fazl, discussed a no-confidence motion against the prime minister and that this option will be further highlighted in the meeting later this month.
"The government is prioritizing the interests and agendas of internationalinstitutions over the interests of Pakistani citizens," he said.
Right. Medhurst.
From 2017. And this being BGOL, here's the money quote: "The loan was brokered by Jean-Luc Schaffhauser, an energy consultant turned MEP, ... denied he and Ms Le Pen ever discussed the issue of Crimea in relation to the loan. "Always Marine Le Pen, and Jean-Marie before, was for co-operation with Russia," he said. "It was not a political loan. It was a commercial loan."
Marine Le Pen: Who's funding France's far right?
BBC Panorama investigates where Marine Le Pen's National Front gets its money.
www.bbc.com
Marine Le Pen: Who's funding France's far right?
By Gabriel Gatehouse
BBC Panorama
3 April 2017
When Marine Le Pen appeared in the Kremlin on 24 March, it was Vladimir Putin himself who gave voice to the thought that was surely on many people's minds:
"I know that the presidential campaign is developing actively in France," the Russian president said, adding: "Of course, we do not want to influence events in any way."
The Russian president appeared to be suppressing a grin as he spoke those words. Marine Le Pen appeared unperturbed.
She repeated her support for Moscow's annexation of Crimea, and her opposition to the sanctions subsequently imposed by the EU. If elected to the Elysee Palace, she pledged: "I would envisage lifting the sanctions quite quickly."
So the meeting was a win for both. Madame Le Pen looked like a world-leader-in-waiting; Mr Putin received assurances from a woman who might become president of France, and who, like him, opposes the EU and Nato.
But there is more to the relationship between Mr Putin and Ms Le Pen than ideological convergence. Because of the National Front's racist and anti-Semitic past, French banks have declined to lend the party money.
So Marine Le Pen has been forced to look elsewhere for financing.
In 2014, the National Front took Russian loans worth €11m (£9.4m). One of the loans, for €9m, came from a small bank, First Czech Russian Bank, with links to the Kremlin.
The loan was brokered by Jean-Luc Schaffhauser, an energy consultant turned MEP, who has called himself "Mr Mission Impossible".
When I met him in Strasbourg, he told me he initially secured an agreement with a financial institution in Abu Dhabi, but the deal fell through. He even approached a potential lender in Iran, but Marine Le Pen vetoed the idea, he said. Eventually, he went to Russia.
The negotiations over the loan coincided with Russia's annexation of Crimea. EU governments condemned the annexation. Marine Le Pen publicly took the opposite view, leading some to question whether the loans were a quid-pro-quo.
Mr Schaffhauser denied he and Ms Le Pen ever discussed the issue of Crimea in relation to the loan.
"Always Marine Le Pen, and Jean-Marie before, was for co-operation with Russia," he said. "It was not a political loan. It was a commercial loan."
Celebrations were recently held in Moscow to mark three years since the annexation of Crimea
But Russia did want to use Ms Le Pen to legitimise its actions in Crimea. We know this because a group of Russian hackers, known as Shaltai Boltai, or Humpty Dumpty, published a series of text messages said to be between a Kremlin official and a Russian MP.
The exchanges, which took place in mid-March 2014, shows the pair discussing the possibility of Marine Le Pen travelling to Crimea as an observer in the referendum which would lead to Crimea's annexation.
"We really need this, I told my boss you were in contact with her," the Kremlin official says.
Marine Le Pen didn't go to Crimea. Instead she publicly backed the results of the referendum, a fact that delighted the Kremlin official and the MP.
"She didn't let us down," says one text, followed by a smiley-face.
"We must find some way of demonstrating our respect to the French," comes the reply.
Some believe the €9m loan, which was made later that year, was indeed a reward for Ms Le Pen's support over Crimea.
"For me, there is no doubt that [the loan] was authorised by Kremlin," said Mikhail Kasyanov, who was prime minister under Vladimir Putin before he joined the opposition.
"[It was] a special operation, a special recommendation of those businesspeople, to help Marine Le Pen."
The Kremlin told me it had nothing to do with the loans, and that Mr Putin and Marine Le Pen had never met before the visit to Moscow in March 2017. Marine Le Pen echoed that.
But I heard something different, and from a pretty good source.
In February, I met Marine's father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of the National Front, at his mansion on the outskirts of Paris. On his desk, he showed me a glossy calendar depicting Vladimir Putin in various military poses.
"I see, that's your friend," I joked.
"He's not my friend," he said, "I've never met him. But he's met Marine."
Mr Le Pen was unclear about the exact details of the meeting. But this conversation took place before the public meeting in the Kremlin in March.
Jean-Marie Le Pen and his daughter are not on good terms. She expelled him from the National Front in 2015 in an attempt to distance herself from his racist, anti-Semitic reputation.
But other people close to Marine Le Pen also told me that she had claimed to have met Mr Putin previously. Somebody is lying. But who? And why?
When I asked Jean-Luc Schaffhauser about the earlier meeting he said simply:
"This is a secret. There are little secrets, and this secret."
Jean-Marie Le Pen told the BBC in February that his daughter had met Vladimir Putin, but this was before a Moscow meeting said to be their first
Marine Le Pen maintains she has never been influenced by Russian money. But last week it was revealed the National Front had applied for another Russian loan in 2016.
Amid fears over Russian interference in elections from Europe to the United States, the mystery of her relationship with Vladimir Putin casts a shadow over her campaign.
Nice articleRight. Medhurst.
From 2017. And this being BGOL, here's the money quote: "The loan was brokered by Jean-Luc Schaffhauser, an energy consultant turned MEP, ... denied he and Ms Le Pen ever discussed the issue of Crimea in relation to the loan. "Always Marine Le Pen, and Jean-Marie before, was for co-operation with Russia," he said. "It was not a political loan. It was a commercial loan."
Marine Le Pen: Who's funding France's far right?
BBC Panorama investigates where Marine Le Pen's National Front gets its money.www.bbc.com
Marine Le Pen: Who's funding France's far right?
By Gabriel Gatehouse
BBC Panorama
3 April 2017
When Marine Le Pen appeared in the Kremlin on 24 March, it was Vladimir Putin himself who gave voice to the thought that was surely on many people's minds:
"I know that the presidential campaign is developing actively in France," the Russian president said, adding: "Of course, we do not want to influence events in any way."
The Russian president appeared to be suppressing a grin as he spoke those words. Marine Le Pen appeared unperturbed.
She repeated her support for Moscow's annexation of Crimea, and her opposition to the sanctions subsequently imposed by the EU. If elected to the Elysee Palace, she pledged: "I would envisage lifting the sanctions quite quickly."
So the meeting was a win for both. Madame Le Pen looked like a world-leader-in-waiting; Mr Putin received assurances from a woman who might become president of France, and who, like him, opposes the EU and Nato.
But there is more to the relationship between Mr Putin and Ms Le Pen than ideological convergence. Because of the National Front's racist and anti-Semitic past, French banks have declined to lend the party money.
So Marine Le Pen has been forced to look elsewhere for financing.
In 2014, the National Front took Russian loans worth €11m (£9.4m). One of the loans, for €9m, came from a small bank, First Czech Russian Bank, with links to the Kremlin.
The loan was brokered by Jean-Luc Schaffhauser, an energy consultant turned MEP, who has called himself "Mr Mission Impossible".
When I met him in Strasbourg, he told me he initially secured an agreement with a financial institution in Abu Dhabi, but the deal fell through. He even approached a potential lender in Iran, but Marine Le Pen vetoed the idea, he said. Eventually, he went to Russia.
The negotiations over the loan coincided with Russia's annexation of Crimea. EU governments condemned the annexation. Marine Le Pen publicly took the opposite view, leading some to question whether the loans were a quid-pro-quo.
Mr Schaffhauser denied he and Ms Le Pen ever discussed the issue of Crimea in relation to the loan.
"Always Marine Le Pen, and Jean-Marie before, was for co-operation with Russia," he said. "It was not a political loan. It was a commercial loan."
Celebrations were recently held in Moscow to mark three years since the annexation of Crimea
But Russia did want to use Ms Le Pen to legitimise its actions in Crimea. We know this because a group of Russian hackers, known as Shaltai Boltai, or Humpty Dumpty, published a series of text messages said to be between a Kremlin official and a Russian MP.
The exchanges, which took place in mid-March 2014, shows the pair discussing the possibility of Marine Le Pen travelling to Crimea as an observer in the referendum which would lead to Crimea's annexation.
"We really need this, I told my boss you were in contact with her," the Kremlin official says.
Marine Le Pen didn't go to Crimea. Instead she publicly backed the results of the referendum, a fact that delighted the Kremlin official and the MP.
"She didn't let us down," says one text, followed by a smiley-face.
"We must find some way of demonstrating our respect to the French," comes the reply.
Some believe the €9m loan, which was made later that year, was indeed a reward for Ms Le Pen's support over Crimea.
"For me, there is no doubt that [the loan] was authorised by Kremlin," said Mikhail Kasyanov, who was prime minister under Vladimir Putin before he joined the opposition.
"[It was] a special operation, a special recommendation of those businesspeople, to help Marine Le Pen."
The Kremlin told me it had nothing to do with the loans, and that Mr Putin and Marine Le Pen had never met before the visit to Moscow in March 2017. Marine Le Pen echoed that.
But I heard something different, and from a pretty good source.
In February, I met Marine's father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of the National Front, at his mansion on the outskirts of Paris. On his desk, he showed me a glossy calendar depicting Vladimir Putin in various military poses.
"I see, that's your friend," I joked.
"He's not my friend," he said, "I've never met him. But he's met Marine."
Mr Le Pen was unclear about the exact details of the meeting. But this conversation took place before the public meeting in the Kremlin in March.
Jean-Marie Le Pen and his daughter are not on good terms. She expelled him from the National Front in 2015 in an attempt to distance herself from his racist, anti-Semitic reputation.
But other people close to Marine Le Pen also told me that she had claimed to have met Mr Putin previously. Somebody is lying. But who? And why?
When I asked Jean-Luc Schaffhauser about the earlier meeting he said simply:
"This is a secret. There are little secrets, and this secret."
Jean-Marie Le Pen told the BBC in February that his daughter had met Vladimir Putin, but this was before a Moscow meeting said to be their first
Marine Le Pen maintains she has never been influenced by Russian money. But last week it was revealed the National Front had applied for another Russian loan in 2016.
Amid fears over Russian interference in elections from Europe to the United States, the mystery of her relationship with Vladimir Putin casts a shadow over her campaign.
so if Le Pen would’ve receive backing from within France there’s no issue to seek backing Abroad
So what is the leadership of African countries doing about it?
She would not get backing fro within France. Her family has not been able to spread their ideas and have a shot at the Presidency of a democracy without the backing of a dictator.
About sanctions?
Shit really ain’t much they can do except complain or find alternative sources
George Bush likeThis photo has been circulating for a few days...
“Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan was given 10 years in prison "for disclosing state secrets."
The former head of the Pakistani Foreign Ministry was also imprisoned.
Imran Khan himself previously stated that he was illegally removed from power as a result of a coup supported by the army elite ordered by the United States.”
The former head of the Pakistani Foreign Ministry was also imprisoned.
Imran Khan himself previously stated that he was illegally removed from power as a result of a coup supported by the army elite ordered by the United States.”