Just a few months ago, another term seemed all but guaranteed for the recently disqualified prime minister.
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His ambitions to accumulate absolute power reflected in his move to declare himself “Amir-ul-Momineen” (Leader of the Believers) was also a factor in the conflict with the military leadership leading to his government’s ouster in 1999.
The Muslim League was able to obtain a two-third majority in the National Assembly and Mian Nawaz Sharif was re-elected as Prime Minister.
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He wanted to gain absolute power, and for that purpose, his party tabled the fifteenth amendment bill in the parliament, commonly known as Shariat Bill, on August 28, 1998, the purpose of which was to become all-powerful
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The question of Nawaz Sharif’s credibility has cropped up time and again. Karz Utaro, Mulk Samvaro. MQM. Kalabagh. Pakhtoonkhwa. IMF. Ad nauseam. If the fellow had only been a congenital liar and fool, we might have shrugged off his vices as befitting any run-of-the-mill politician. But as a prime minister who wants to become Amir ul Momineen, his omissions and commissions make him a veritable security risk for Pakistan. Worse, the latest revelations by Rehman Malik, a former senior FIA officer, now show Mr Sharif out to be a plunderer at par with the likes of Benazir Bhutto and Asif Zardari.