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Indians cheered news of the successful Agni-V test; and learned of political clearance to raise a Mountain Strike Corps in the east to be headquartered at Panagarh. Each of India’s three armed services is moving to modernise itself.ed news of the successful Agni-V test; and learned of political clearance to raise a Mountain Strike Corps in the east to be headquartered 
Gwynne Dyer: The return of Nawaz Sharif in Pakistan
by GWYNNE DYER on MAY 16, 2013 at 10:03 AM
Yesterday, India jubilantly tested the long-range Agni-V ballistic missile for the second time, en route to the missile’s induction into the Strategic Forces Command in several years. But trouble looms on India’s borders. In the recent monsoon session, Defence Minister A.K. Antony stood before Parliament to defend the government against the charge that it is permitting Chinese encroachment along the border and Line of Actual Control. Ground realities are difficult to discern from New Delhi, but much of the Indian media seems fearful that the Chinese are winning a slow border game of chicken. To the west, Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif continued to make conciliatory noises towards Delhi while also chairing a National Command Authority meeting, which affirmed its support for “full spectrum deterrence”.
To deal with this rough neighbourhood, India has embarked on an ambitious military modernisation programme. Indians have triumphantly witnessed progress on a nuclear ballistic missile submarine, the Arihant, whose reactor recently went critical; watched the aircraft carrier Vikrant set off from dry dock; cheered news of the successful Agni-V test; and learned of political clearance to raise a Mountain Strike Corps in the east to be headquartered at Panagarh. Each of India’s three armed services is moving to modernise itself.
But can India afford it all? The defence budget for 2013-14 grew by 5 per cent over the previous year, with defence capital acquisitions growing by 9 per cent. But, with inflation averaging more than 5 per cent since February, and the rupee depreciating by 14 per cent against the dollar over the same period, that modest nominal budget increase is actually a real budget decrease for defence. In a time of austerity, strategic planning is about prioritisation. How should India prioritise its future military modernisation to meet its envisioned security requirements? Each of the three services can claim urgent need.
In each of his previous terms, he tried very hard to make peace with India, but was thwarted both times by the Pakistani army. The current military chief of staff, General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, is due to retire at the end of this year (after a three-year extension in office), Nawaz Sharif wants large-scale Indian investment in Pakistan (including pipelines bringing oil and gas from Iran and Central Asia). He would let Pakistan cut the military budget down to size. And it would end the army’s tacit support for the Taliban in Afghanistan, which is all about ensuring that Pakistan has a friendly government in Kabul to give it “strategic depth” in its long cold war with India.
That weakens the legitimacy of his victory, but with the support of some candidates who won as independents he will have no trouble in forming a majority government. The question is: what will that government do?
It’s a good question, because Pakistan is a nuclear-armed country of 160 million people that has borders with India, Afghanistan and Iran.
Everybody knows that Nawaz Sharif is conservative, pro-business, and devout – during his second term, he tried to pass a constitutional amendment that would have enabled him to enforce Sharia law—but he hasn’t been tremendously forthcoming about his actual plans for his third term. And some of the things he did say have caused concern in various quarters.
The thing that most worries the United States is his declaration that Pakistan should end its involvement in the U.S.-led “war on terror”. The army in unhappy about his proposal that the government should negotiate with the Pakistani Taliban (who conducted a campaign of bombings, assassinations and kidnappings against the “secular” political parties in the recent election) rather than just fighting them.
And everybody is wondering what Nawaz will do about the economy. The country’s balance of payments is in ruins, and it cannot meet its foreign debt obligations without negotiating new loans from the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Those loans would come with onerous conditions about balancing the budget and fixing the tax system, and they wouldn’t come at all without American support.
Pakistan is technically a middle-income country, but during the outgoing government’s five years in office power shortages grew so acute that most regions are facing power outages for up to 12 hours a day. Millions of vehicles fuelled by natural gas have been immobilised by gas shortages. The country desperately needs foreign investment, but the plague of Islamist terrorism frightens investors away.
Finally, the United States will be withdrawing its troops from Afghanistan next year, and Nawaz Sharif will have to decide what he wants to do about the Taliban in that country (who still have the tacit support of Pakistan’s army). The key to all these puzzles, oddly enough, may lie in the incoming prime minister’s determination to improve relations with India.
India has seven times Pakistan’s population and a booming economy, and it long ago lost its obsession with the agonies of Partition in 1947 and the three wars with Pakistan that followed. But the Pakistan army continues to be obsessed with the “threat” from India—in large part because that justifies its taking the lion’s share of the national budget. If Nawaz could fix Pakistan’s relations with India, a lot of his other dilemmas would also be solved.
The Taliban will inevitably be part of any post-occupation government in Afghanistan, but without Pakistani support they will have to strike a deal with other forces rather than just taking over. That outcome would greatly mollify Washington and make it easier for Islamabad to get new loans from the World Bank and the IMF. It would also make it easier for the government to negotiate some kind of domestic peace settlement with the Pakistani Taliban.
Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.
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Musharaf should be hanged because of the following
reasons :1.Pakistan was ranked third in world
banking profitability.
2. Separist terrorist BLA Akbar Bugti eliminated.
3. The IT industry was valued at around $2
billion, including $1 billion in exports and
employed around 90,000 professionals.
4. The CNG sector attracted over $70
billion in investment in the past five years
and created 45,000 jobs.
5. The telecommunications sector
attracted around $10 billion in investments
and created over 1.3 million jobs.
6. Industrial parks were set up throughout
the country for the first time.
7. Mega projects such as the Saindak,
Rekodiq, marble production, coal
production, mining and quarrying were
pursued.
8. Foreign reserves increased from $700
million to $17 billion.
9. The Karachi stock market went from 700
points to 15,000 points.
10. The literacy rate improved by 11 per
cent.
11. Poverty decreased by 10 per cent.
12. Four dams were built: Mirani, Subakzai,
Gomalzam, Khurram, and Tangi,
13. Seven motorways were completed or
were under construction,
14. Gwadar, an advanced sea port, was
developed,
15. 650 kilometres of coastal highways
were constructed.
16. A historic 100% increase in tax
collection (amounting to Rs1 trillion) was
observed.
17. Large scale manufacturing was at a 30-
year high, and construction at a 17-year
high.
18. Copper and gold deposits were found
in Chagai, worth about $600 million
annually if sold.
19. A new oil refinery with the UAE that
could process 300,000 oil barrels a day was
established.
20. The industrial sector registered 26 per
cent growth.21. The economy was the third fastest
growing economy after China and India .
22. The Institute of Space Technology was
established.
23. Sardar Bahadur Khan Women
University Quetta was established.
24. The University of Science and
Technology, Bannu, was established.
25. The University of Hazara was founded.
26. The Malakand University in Chakdara
was established.
27. The University of Gujrat was
established
28. The Virtual University of Pakistan was
established
29. Sarhad University of IT in Peshawar
was established
30. The National Law University in
Islamabad was established
31. The Media University in Islamabad was
established
32. University of Education in Lahore was
established
33. Lasbela University of Marine Sciences,
Baluchistan, was established
34. Baluchistan University of IT &
Management, Quetta (2002)
35. The Pakistan economy was worth $
160 billion in 2007
36. GDP Purchasing Power Parity (PPP)
was $ 475.5 billion in 2007
37. The GDP per Capita in 2007 was $
1000
38. Revenue collection in 2007/08 was
Rs1.002 billion
39. Exports in 2007were worth $18.5
billion
40. Textile exports in 2007 were worth
$11.2 billion
41. Foreign direct investment in 2007 was
$8.5 billion
42. Debt servicing in 2007 was 26 per cent
of the GDP
43. The poverty level in 2007 was 24 per
cent
44. The literacy rate in 2007 was 53 per
cent
45. Pakistan development programs in
2007 were valued at Rs520 billion
46. The Karachi stock exchange in 2007
was $70 billion at 15,000 points
47. Exports in 2007: $18.5 billion
48. Pakistan now has a total of 245,682
educational institutions in all categories,
including 164,579 in the public sector and
81,103 in the private sector, according to
the National Education Census (NEC-2005).
49. There are now more than 5,000
Pakistanis doing PhDs in foreign countries
on scholarship. 300 Pakistanis receive PhD
degrees every year, in 1999, the number
was just 20….!And Most Importantly!
50.Gen.Musharraf Kept Crooked Politicians like Asif Zardari, Psychedelic Pugreewallah Mulla Fazlur Rehman Fazlu, Asfandyar Wali, Altaf Hussain, & Nawaz Sharif from Pakistan Government
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Did U.S. Assist In Nawaz Sharif Re-election By Pausing Drone Attacks On Pakistan?
Last publicly reported drone strike was one month ago
By Paul D. Shinkman
May 19, 2013 “Information Clearing House” -“USA Today“- The skies over Pakistan have remained conspicuously clear during the recent election season, according experts on drone strikes in that part of the world.
The last recorded U.S. drone strike in or near Pakistan occurred on April 17, open source data indicates, or roughly a month before the Pakistani election that reestablished Nawaz Sharif as prime minister for the third time.
Specifics of this notoriously reclusive drone program remain top secret within the U.S. military and intelligence communities, though experts on the use of unmanned aerial vehicles and Pakistani politics say the U.S. has likely eased up on the joystick for what has become a popular local talking point.
“Every drone strike is a little bit of gasoline on a fire,” says Karl Kaltenthaler, a professor at The University of Akron and expert on drone strikes in Pakistan.
“There was a lot of discussion during the election about Pakistani sovereignty, about standing up, particularly to the United States over the drone strikes in the FATA,” he says of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas in northwestern Pakistan along the Afghan border. This tribal region is home to much of the Pakistani Taliban, and is predominantly Pashtun.
One of the more vocal candidates in the recent election, former cricketer Imran Khan, is himself of Pashtun descent and used U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan as a favorite populist and anti-American talking point.
Khan said earlier in May he would “end the system of American slavery” in Pakistan.
“We were not trying to get directly involved in the election, which would be radioactive,” said Kaltenhaler. “But drone strikes would just be fuel on the fire.”
Drone strikes in this region are largely carried out by Air Force pilots using CIA information, though no public records exist of this activity. The Bureau of Investigative Journalism and the Long War Journal document drone strikes through public information.
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AYESHA AHAD SAYS SHAHBAZ’S SON-IN-LAW ALI IMRAN WAS BEHIND HER TORTURE EPISODE
By Iran Salim
Islamabad, Oct 20 (www.pakdestiny.com) While Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif smartly rescue his daughter Rabia and even gain politically by presenting his son-in-law Ali Imran in the bakery boy torture case to police that was not even ready to quiz him, Hamza Shahbaz’s third wife Aysha Ahad identifies Ali Imran ‘a man behind her torture’.
Ayesha told Pak Destiny “Ali Imran last year with the help of Hamza got me arrested in a fake kidnapping case. I was given a 10-day physical remand during which Imran ensured that I was subjected to severe torture. Exactly after one year the real culprits behind this – Ali Imran – is exposed.”
“Ali Imran has been arrested for being involved in a similar kidnapping case and has been given a 12-day remand as well. The only difference is my and his case. I was innocent while Imran is guilty but the whole Punjab government machinery is bent upon saving him and Rabia. But still I am not given justice,” Ayesha said. Interestingly, the PML-N media cell giving ads to local papers portraying Shahbaz Sharif a man of principles like Hazrat Umar. Shahbaz is taking full credit of ensuring supremacy of the law but the fact is he smartly has fooled the masses in his daughter and son-in-law case.(www.pakdestiny.com)
Hamza Shahbaz and Ayesha Ahad Malik marriage case
Court summons Hamza Shahbaz through advertisement
F.P. Report LAHORE: A local court on Friday ordered to publish all previous orders summoning PML-N leader and MNA Hamza Shahbaz, son of Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on application filed by Ayesha Ahad Malik. Civil Judge Ghulam Murtaza placed this order and adjourned hearing till September 18. The court also summoned Dr Rabia with whom Hamza Shahbaz wanted to marry. In the previous hearing of the case, the court issued notice to the respondents but no one appeared in the court, neither the respondents nor their counsel. The petitioner of the case, Ayesha Ahad Malik said she was his wife and legally he was bound to ask her about his marriage with any other lady. She said he played with her life and was ignoring her and even denied of being her husband. Ayesha, the daughter of PML-Q former MPA Ahad Malik, challenged the likely marriage of Hamza Shahbaz and Dr Rabia, The petitioner prayed to the court to stop Hamza from contracting other marriage with Dr Rabia. Writ on election spendings: A writ petition has been filed in the Supreme Court of Pakistan on Friday seeking directions to fix limited amount of Rs 300,000 as per candidate for annual elections of SCBA. Watan party filed the petition through its chairman Barrister Zafarullah Khan under Article 184 (3), Article 2-A, 9, 9, 25, 31 & 37 read with section 13 and 55 of the constitution at Lahore Registry of the Supreme Court. The petitioner said corrupt practices and excessive expenditures in annual elections of SCBA, such as to hold lunch, tea, dinner parties for the voters and arrange transports to bring them to polling station, booths and issuing perchi containing particulars of voters, including name, polling stations, booths and serial number of the voters in the electoral roll should be banned. He said candidates take part in elections for their vested interests and spend million of rupees to get maximum votes. They make efforts for their personal interests and do not focus on the welfare of the legal fraternity, he said. The petitioner prayed to the court to direct the candidates not to spend money more than Rs 300,000 on the occasion of annual bar elections. LHC seeks final report on hajj quota: Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial of the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Friday directed ministry of religious affairs to submit report regarding its meeting with Saudi embassy about hajj quota. The Chief Justice sought final report on the matter pertaining distribution of hajj quota to new tour hajj tour operators.
On Friday as proceeding started, Deputy Attorney General Naseem Kashmiri appeared before the court and submitted that only five companies approached them while no other company did bother to contract ministry concerned on the disputed matter. Hajj Director Lahore Muhammad Saeed Malik was also present in the court. DAG told ministry had its meeting with Saudi embassy and that is why it could not submit report regarding the distribution of quota to new hajj tour operators. He sought time, on which the court directed the federal government to submit its final report about the distribution of hajj quota to new tour operators and adjourned hearing till September 10. During the course of proceeding, Chief Justice remarked the courts have to intervene into the affairs of the executive when it fails to fulfill its responsibilities. The CJ added that with this necessary intervention of the courts, the courts are accused of crossing its boundaries. The petitioners said due to unjust distribution of Hajj quota to the private tour operators, it has become impossible for a common operator to bear Hajj expenses. They say Hajj policy had been sent to the federal government for approval, and a plan has been made to dish out the quota on personal like and dislike. They said the Supreme Court in its July 7, 2011 order had observed that the government should observe transparency at the time of making next year (2012) Hajj Policy. They pointed out that last year ministry and 726 tour operators had pleaded that money had been received from pilgrims and their lists had been sent to Saudi Arabia.
Petitioners say ministry is again giving quota to these tour operators and door has been closed for new tour operators. Court extends bail of Tauqeer, Talha: A special central judge on Friday extended till September 14, interim bail of former Punjab Chief Minister Principal Secretary Tauqeer Shah and Staff Officer Talha Barki accused of releasing fake intelligence reports about the murder plot of former LHC Chief Justice Khawaja Muhammad Shahreef. Federal Investigation Agency sought more time to submit record of the case. The court accepting the plea of FIA extended interim bail till Sep 14, of both accused. FIA had registered the FIR against them on charges of issuing a false intelligence report on murder plot of former LHC chief justice Khwaja Sharif. The agency accused them of hatching a conspiracy by managing issuance of a false intelligence report about the murder plot in a id to create differences among the federal government, provincial government and judiciary. The accused Rehman through his counsel submitted that he had no role in the alleged conspiracy. He said the FIA implicated him in the case to serve the ulterior motives of PPP-led federal government. He prayed that protective bail be granted him and the FIA be restrained from arresting him.
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Nawaz Sharif is widely acknowledged to be a highly incompetent person, with a low mediocre IQ. level. The brain behind him was that of his late “Abba Jee” (‘daddy’) – the mastermind and the main decision maker behind the scene.
The following is an excellent programme exposing some of the corruption conducted by Nawaz Sharif by the host of DM Digital, Farhan Aslam, who also used to work for ARY Digital a few years ago. The report has been divided into six segments
After that Nawaz Sharif had completed his education, in the 3rd division in B.A from Govt College, Lahore as he got admission in Govt College Lahore, on recommendations, and he used to be called in the class as “Kuggoo’ because he never used to participate in the class nor replied to any question he has ever been asked by the lecturer, told by his class mates.
His father Mian Muhammad Sharif started him in the business. However, this proved a disaster. As a second option Mian Muhammad Sharif set him up with Pakistani actor Saeed Khan Rangeela to get him into acting (something which Nawaz Sharif wanted). A few days later Saeed Khan Rangeela sent his regrets to Mian Muhammad Sharif saying that his son was too dumb for acting and movie industry. Mian Muhammad Sharif then hired cricket coaches to train his son for cricket, but his physical fitness was too low for the sport. It is rumored that by mid-day on his first day at training Nawaz Sharif threw the bat down and left the stadium saying, “This is too tough for me.”
As a last resort he paid General Ghulam Jilani Khan a considerable sum of money to introduce Nawaz Sharif to General Zia-ul-Haq recommending him for a political post, who in turn made Nawaz Sharif the Finance Minister of Punjab.
( Gen. Gilani was not offered money, in fact he had been presented a ‘White Palace’ made on a 4-kanal corner plot in Lahore Cant and it was worth Rs. 4 crores then, a s said. It was just beautiful with Victorian style round porch with a running fountain in the center. But Mian Sharif, being business man, recovered many ’4 crores’ out of the son’s post of Finance Minister of Punjab, and it was sure that Nawaz Sharif would not be able to write his designation with correct spellings )
However, this was the day when the street thugs of Mohni Road had stepped on to becoming the national thugs of Pakistan.
After that Nawaz Sharif had completed his education, in the 3rd division in B.A from Govt College, Lahore as he got admission in Govt College Lahore, on recommendations, and he used to be called in the class as “Kugoo’ because he never used to participate in the class nor replied to any question he has ever been asked by the lecturer, told by his class mates.
His father Mian Muhammad Sharif started him in the business. However, this proved a disaster. As a second option Mian Muhammad Sharif set him up with Pakistani actor Saeed Khan Rangeela to get him into acting (something which Nawaz Sharif wanted). A few days later Saeed Khan Rangeela sent his regrets to Mian Muhammad Sharif saying that his son was too dumb for acting and movie industry. Mian Muhammad Sharif then hired cricket coaches to train his son for cricket, but his physical fitness was too low for the sport. It is rumored that by mid-day on his first day at training Nawaz Sharif threw the bat down and left the stadium saying, “This is too tough for me.”
As a last resort he paid General Ghulam Jilani Khan a considerable sum of money to introduce Nawaz Sharif to General Zia-ul-Haq recommending him for a political post, who in turn made Nawaz Sharif the Finance Minister of Punjab.
( Gen. Gilani was not offered money, in fact he had been presented a ‘White Palace’ made on a 4-kanal corner plot in Lahore Cant and it was worth Rs. 4 crores then, a s said. It was just beautiful with Victorian style round porch with a running fountain in the center. But Mian Sharif, being business man, recovered many ’4 crores’ out of the son’s post of Finance Minister of Punjab, and it was sure that Nawaz Sharif would not be able to write his designation with correct spellings )
However, this was the day when the street thugs of Mohni Road had stepped on to becoming the national thugs of Pakistan.
The day Nawaz Sharif had become Finance Minister, the entire family’s earnings were few million rupees and had only one re-rolling mill. From there they went on to: Ittefaq Sugar Mills was set up in 1982, Brothers steel in 1983, Brother’s Textile Mills in 1986, Brothers Sugar Mills Ltd in 1986, Ittefaq Textile units in 2-3 in 1987, Khalid Siraj Textile Mills in 1988, Ramzan Buksh Textiles in 1987, Farooq Barkat (pvt) Ltd in 1985. (All on loans from the government as Ziaul Haq used to sign on his loans requests and also on loan writing off requests. That is why when PPP Govt.took-over and the written off loans were calculated by the first Public Accounts Committee, there were two at the top i.e. Choudhy brothers, 22 billions, repeat billions and Mian Sharif 21 billion, all written off by Ziaul Haq. It is still on record in PAC Report of 1989.) By the time of Zia ul Haq’s fateful plane crash, Mian Muhammad Sharif’s family was earning a net profit of US$ 3 million, up from a few million rupees. By the end of the decade their net assets were worth more than 6 billion rupees, according to their own admission, nearly US$ 350 million at the time. But this turned out to be small-change when Nawaz Sharif became the Prime Minister.
When Nawaz Sharif became prime minister, the group took a decision to secure project loans from the foreign banks and only working capital was taken from the nationalized commercial banks. The project financing from foreign banks was ostensibly secured against the foreign currency deposits, a number of which were held in benamee accounts, as repeatedly claimed by Interior Minister Naseer Ullah Babar at his press conferences. In 1992 Salman Taseer released an account of Nawaz Sharif’s corruption stating that the family had taken loans of up to 12 billion rupees, which were never paid back. On March 2, 1994, Khalid Siraj, a cousin of Nawaz Sharif claimed that the assets of the seven brothers were valued at Rs 21 billion.
During the Afghan-Soviet War Nawaz Sharif’s cousin and brother-in-law, Sohail Zia Butt started working under the drug baron Mirza Iqbal Beg, then Pakistan’s second biggest drug lord after Ayub Afridi. Mian Muhammad Sharif and his sons had a permanent share in his gambling and heroin business. In 1990 Suhail Butt won a seat on the Islami Jamhoori Ittehad ticket in the Punjab Assembly. It was through Sohail Butt’s association that Nawaz Sharif became a close associate of Mirza Iqbal Beg. It was through him that Nawaz Sharif became benami owner of many of the privatized government entities, such as Muslim Commercial Bank. Sohail Zia Butt other than getting involved in the drug business made billions in the co-operative societies’ collapse, mainly through the National Industrial Credit and Finance Corporation. It was Nawaz Sharif’s share in his cousin’s drug business which he used to buy off the generals thereby delaying the inevitable dismissal of his government.
In 1995 when Mirza Iqbal Beg was imprisoned, Sohail Zia Butt took over his drug empire. It was at this time that he became one of the biggest drug and crime bosses in Pakistan and was nicknamed the “King of Heera Mandi” and at one time all six underworld gangs of Lahore were working under him.
By 1995 family’s declared annual profits from industrial units had increased 1500% from US$ 30 million to staggering US$ 400 million.
This is the short version of how in mere 15 years small street thugs running gambling dens became leaders of a country running narcotics, underworld and smuggling empires, untouched by everyone.
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part 2
Nawaz Sharif’s only agenda was to make money. In order to achieve this goal, he formed/changed laws and policies for his personal benefit and expanded his business empire by misusing his authority as Prime Minister. Interestingly enough and ironically, the PPP played a major role in exposing the corruption of Nawaz Sharif and his family. The Jamaat-e-Islami had also leveled a number of corruption allegations upon Nawaz Sharif. As we know, later Sharif and his cronies also played a role in exposing the corruption of Benazir Bhutto and her PPP. In other words, both Sharif and Bhutto have been busy over the years actively accusing each other of committing corruption.
Nawaz Sharif is widely acknowledged to be a highly incompetent person, with a low mediocre IQ. level. The brain behind him was that of his late “Abba Jee” (‘daddy’) – the mastermind and the main decision maker behind the scene.
In order to consolidate and attain more power, N. Sharif attacked every individual and institutions he felt could get in the way challenge his authority. In order to get rid of the then Chief Justice Sajjad Ali Shah, who was despised by Sharif, the later created divisions among the judges to make life difficult for the Chief Justice. A group of judges refused to acknowledge Shah as the Chief Justice and things got so bad that a number of junior judges put hurdles in the way of the Chief Justice in order to make it difficult for him to carry out his duties. Eventually, Sharif ordered his thugs to attack the Supreme Court in order to prevent the Chief Justice from giving a ruling against him.
The police did nothing to stop Sharif’s thugs as they attacked and entered the Supreme Court. The judges inside the building barely managed to escape. The thugs, led by Sajjad Naseem and Mushtaq Tahir, Nawaz Sharif’s political secretaries, entered the court chanting anti-Sajjad slogans and destroyed the furniture.
Next, consider Nawaz Sharif’s relationship with the press and media. Two examples will suffice. On 8th May 1999, Najam Sethi, a prominent journalist of Pakistan, was arrested by the police on the orders of Sharif. Sethi has committed the crime of annoying Nawaz Sharif by writing a critical essay against him. The police broke into Sethi’s house at around 2 am and beat him up in his bedroom in front of his wife, after which he was transported off to a secret location. The police trashed Sethi’s house, broke the furniture and beat him up quite bad. Sethi was only released after a lot of international pressure had built up against Sharif. Sharif also demanded the Jang Group to get rid of all the journalists who were critical of him. To achieve this goal, Sharif and his cronies used a variety of legal and illegal means to pressure the Jang Group into compliance.
There is probably no institution in Pakistan which Nawaz Sharif did not aggressively confront in order make them comply to his wishes. Besides picking on a fight with the President, the Judiciary and the already restricted/limited media, Sharif also decided to have a confrontation with the army, the only viable institution left in Pakistan. Chief of Army Staff, General Jehangir Karamat, and Nawaz Sharif had a conflict over an issue pertaining to the national security council and both entered into a heated discussion, after which Gen. Karamat had to offer his resignation. Jehangir Karamat thus became the first Chief of Army Staff in the history of Pakistan to have left the army in this prematurely in this manner.
One by one all challenges and potential obstacles were removed from the way by Nawaz Sharif. Ghulam Ishaq Khan, Farooq Leghari, Sajjad Ali Shah, and Jehangir Karamat, as well as others, were all removed from the scene by Sharif.
After the removal of Jehangir Karamat, Sharif appointed Pervaiz Musharraf as the Chief of Army Staff. Some analysts at the time said that Sharif made this decision thinking that Pervaiz Musharraf was an Urdu speaker and did not belong to a Punjabi army family, thus very unlikely to be a threat to Sharif!
Things became sour between Sharif and Musharraf during the Kargil episode. Later, once a relative of Sharif was removed from the army by Musharraf, that was the final nail in the coffin. Sharif then decided to take his revenge and replace Gen. Musharraf with a fellow of his liking who would be controllable (the head of the ISI. at the time).
Those who think Nawaz Sharif is their leader should think twice. People of Pakistan can not be fooled by these thugs leaders in 21st century
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