Example sentences for: nawaz

How can you use “nawaz” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In Punjab, the home province of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, more than 850 people have been shot by police since he came to power two years ago, according to a Punjabi paper, the News . The police explanation of these killings is often that the suspects died "in cross-fire" during street battles with criminal gangs, but Pakistani lawyers and human rights groups say the killings are deliberate and authorized by Sharif's government, the Guardian said.

  • The NYT gets a nice detail: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif fired Musharraf as he was flying back to the country and forbade his plane to land; as the plane ran low on fuel, the army commandeered first the air control tower and then the country.

  • As the new military regime in Pakistan began court proceedings against the ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on corruption and kidnapping charges--he is accused of refusing to let the military coup plotters land as their plane was running out of fuel--the Times of India ran an editorial Friday saying that Gen.

  • It said the four-hour delay before the nation was told the outcome of the coup attempt may have been caused by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's refusal to resign as the army looked for a constitutional way to remove him.

  • Vajpayee, who crossed the Indo-Pakistani border on a bus this weekend to meet with his counterpart Nawaz Sharif.


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