Are Imran Khan and Nawaz Shariff Trojan Pro-US candidates? If so, Pakistanis will never forgive them. If the news about kowtowing with Munter and promising him the sky is true, then both of these politicians are unabashedly hypocritical and no different from crook Zardari, Raja rental, or Narco Gilani and their ilk. Their politicians have betrayed Pakistani people time and again. It seems Imran Khan and Nawaz Shariff are so power hungry, that they are going around molly coddling with the US Ambassador or US Viceroy in Pakistan. It would be in US interest to stop meddling in Pakistan’s politics. Political interference in Pakistan’s internal affairs is a hallmark of US policy. But, this time it may boomerang on US. Cozying up to populist leaders like Imran Khan and Nawaz Shariff, will not only tar their reputation, but also reduce their chances of winning the upcoming elections. In case of Imran Khan, it will be a betrayal of the highest order. It will be a blot in his future political career. But, the elephant in the room, the “mullahs,” like the yellow psychedelic “pugree,” wallah Fazal-ur-Rahman and Jamaat-i-Islami would clean sweep the election. It has happened before in Algeria and Iran. Then as we say, Uncle Sam can go on “Chankana-Bajayee Jao,” spree in south Asia. And the demonic Taliban of Fazalullah will come roaring down the mountains with their brand of “sharia,” burning girls schools and colleges, forcibly asking Punjabis, Sindhis, Balochis, and Pashtuns to grow beards. Summary executions on The Mall, Lahore would be the order of the day and Pakistani nation will be pushed back into darkness of Jahiliya.
US Ambassador: Pakistani Opposition Figures Vow to Install Pro-US Govt.
Despite Criticism of PPP, Key Leaders Said to Promise Their Own Client State
Speaking in an interview to the BBC’s Urdu channel today, US Ambassador to Pakistan Cameron Munter claimed that two of the top opposition leaders in the country have personally promised that they would install pro-US governments should they win the next election.
Munter said he met with current opposition leader Nawaz Sharif as well as popular PTI leader Imran Khan, and that both had assured him that if they won the election, Pakistan would cooperate unconditionally with the US on the war in terrorism.
Both candidates’ parties have been loudly critical of the ruling Pakistani Peoples Party (PPP) for behaving like a US client state, and Khan has loudlycondemned participation in the war, saying in one interview that “America is destroying Pakistan.”
Munter’s claims were shocking, and neither Sharif nor Khan has issued statements yet disputing the allegations. If true they will likely push Pakistan’s strongly anti-US voters toward religious conservative blocs as the only real “opposition” to the status quo.
