The Silent Fighter.

Introduction.

He was born in 1961 in the Panjwayi  ,district Kandahar, Afghanistan. He belongs to the Noorzai tribe.His father, Mullah Mohammad Akhund, was a religious scholar as well as the imam of their village mosque. Not owning any land or orchards of their own, the family depended on what the congregation paid his father in cash or in a portion of their crops. He studied under his father. The family migrated to Quetta after the Soviet Invasion and  continued his education at one of the first seminaries established in the Sarnan neighborhood.

Role in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan.

When the Afghan Taliban captured the capital Kabul in 1996. His first job  was in Farah  Province as a member of the Department of the promotion  of Virtue and the Prevention of vice paramilitary enforcers. He later moved to Kandahar and was made an instructor at  the seminary of about 100,000 students that Mullah Omar personally looked after.

He was later appointed as Chief Justice of the Shariah Courts of the Islamic Courts  of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. Rather than a warlord or military commander, he has a reputation as a religious leader who was responsible for issuing most of the Taliban's fatwas and settling religious issues among members of the Taliban. Mullah Omar  is known to have consulted by him on matters of fatwa.Unlike his predecessors who were educated in Pakistan and who were also believed to have moved permanently east across the Durand line after the US invasion in 2001.

After his promotion to deputy leader of the Taliban in 2015, he put in place a system under which a commission were formed under the shadow governor in every province that could investigate abusive commanders or fighters, according to Mullah Abdul Bari, a Taliban commander in Helmand.

2012 assassination attempt.

According to Mullah Ibrahim, a student of him who was interviewed by The New York Times,He was the subject of an attempted assassination in Quetta which the Taliban blamed on the National Directorate of Security, the Afghan intelligence agency. "'During one of his lectures in Quetta one day about four years ago, a man stood among the students and pointed a pistol at him from a close range, but the pistol stuck,' Mullah Ibrahim recalled. 'He was trying to shoot him, but he failed, and the Taliban rushed to tackle' the man, he said, adding that he  did not move even in the chaos.

As new chief of Taliban.

He was appointed as the Taliban supreme commander on 25 May 2016 as the replacement for Mullah Akhtar Mansour. Mansour and a second militant were killed when munitions fired from a drone hit the vehicle in which they were riding. The strike was approved by U.S. President Barack Obama. Akhundzada was previously a deputy for Mansour. According to sources from the Taliban, Mansour had already named him as his successor in his will.

He has sustained a neutral identity among the Taliban rank and file. To avoid conflict upon choosing him as chief, the Taliban agreed that Mullah Yaqoob and Sirajuddin Haqqani will both work as his deputies.

Conclusion.

I think that now few of you would have guessed this "He" in this entire blog. Yes people i am talking about the current head of Afghan Taliban, Mullah Haibatullah Akhunzada. He should be given the credit along with Mullah Abdul ghani Biradar ,as both have worked for the success of the Taliban-US talks.

Crisis Master.

Introduction.

He was Born on 23 September 1950.His father was an upper-middle-class businessman and industrialist whose family had emigrated from Anantnag in Kashmir for business, and eventually settled in the village of Jati Umra in Amritsar.

Political career.

This man then began his political career after getting elected to the Provincial Assembly of Punjab from Constituency PP-122 (Lahore-VII) as a candidate of Islami Jamhoori Ittehad   in 1988 general election.He was re-elected to the Provincial Assembly of Punjab from Constituency PP-124 (Lahore-IX) as a candidate of IJI. He was re-elected to the Provincial Assembly of Punjab from Constituency PP-125 (Lahore-X) as a candidate of (PML-N) in 1993 general election .He was also he was elected to the National Assembly from Constituency NA-96. His term as Member of the Punjab Assembly and the Leader of the Opposition prematurely ended in November 1996 , when the assemblies were dissolved.

He was elected as the Chief Minister of Punjab for the first time and was sworn in as 13th Chief Minister of Punjab on 20 February 1997. During his tenure as Chief Minister of Punjab, he was praised for his good governance in the province because of his focus on health, education, agriculture and industrial sectors. He undertook several development projects in Lahore and launched a crackdown on criminals across the province to maintain law and order in the province.

He held his office until 12 October 1999 when was removed from the post of Chief Minister in the 1999 coup of General Pervaiz Musharraf, following the coup he was imprisoned.

He was not allowed to take part in the 2008 general election due to the charges of murder but  In 2008, he was acquitted in the 1998 extrajudicial killings case.

He then won the BY-polls held in June 2008. He was re-elected as the Chief Minister of Punjab unopposed after securing 265 votes. His second term as Chief Minister lasted until 25 February 2009, when the Supreme Court of Pakistan declared him ineligible to hold public office which took away his seat in the Punjab Assembly, and thereby removed him from office as Chief Minister. On 1 April 2009, a five-member larger bench of the Supreme Court overturned an earlier decision of the apex court, in which he was disqualified from holding public office. As a result, he returned to office as Chief Minister.

In 2013 general elections he was re-elected to the Provincial Assembly of Punjab from three Constituencies PP-159 (Lahore-XXIII), PP-161 (Lahore-XXV) and PP-247 (Rajanpur-I) - as a candidate of PML-N in 2013 . In the same election, he was re-elected to the National Assembly from Constituency NA-129 (Lahore-XII) as candidate of PML-N. but he opted to retain his Provincial Assembly seat PP-159 (Lahore-XXIII) and was re-elected as the Chief Minister of Punjab for the third time unopposed after securing 300 votes in the 371-members Provincial Assembly.

Crisis management.

1.  In early 2009 Punjab met one of the worst flour crisis. It was him who eventually defeated the crisis by making timely policies and by having a good team which stood by him ,whenever he was in tough situations.

2.  In 2010 and 2012 Punjab met with one of the most deadliest and devastating floods of all time many people were killed and many were displaced. Millions of acres of land were destroyed which resulted in food shortage but even in this  tough situation this man stood with  people of his province irrespective of their political and regional identity. He himself went to the affected areas and inspected all the sites

3. The Punjab government led by this man made a herculean effort to fight dengue epidemic in 2011 and managed to control it. He worked on the problem day and night and eventually his team introduced a smart phone app which could insert the picture of any site and GPs location of it to determine from where the picture was taken.

This project was started in 2011 and till 2016, 17 million such pictures were taken.

Conclusion.

Now I think every one would have correctly guessed this man who has been referred as "He" in this entire article.Yes people I am talking about the three time chief minister of Punjab Shahbaz Sharif.

I think that in the last 20 years Pakistan has never got any man like Shahbaz Sharif whose timely and wise decisions had saved the country from crisis which could have changed the country's map in term of health ,food etc. 

On the other hand we have the current PTI government in Punjab and Federal, but they lack the ability of crisis management as we saw in 2018 faizabad dharna or the flour crisis which emerged in the start of 202o or the current Corona Virus.