The US-led “war on terror” will be in safe hands if democracy returns to Pakistan, exiled former leader Nawaz Sharif said on Sunday as he prepares to defy the military regime by returning home. “It’s very simple: we’re all against terror,” Sharif told CNN, recapping his “excellent rapport” with then US president Bill Clinton before he was ousted as Pakistan’s prime minister by President Pervez Musharraf.“You can’t fight terror the way Musharraf is fighting it. He needs the threat of terror for his own survival. We will fight terror out of conviction,” he said. “You can’t win the battle against terror when the nation is not behind you, when the people of the country are not supporting you, when the parliament is not behind you,” he added.