You have commented 339 times on Rantburg.

Your Name
Your e-mail (optional)
Website (optional)
My Original Nic        Pic-a-Nic        Sorry. Comments have been closed on this article.
Bold Italic Underline Strike Bullet Blockquote Small Big Link Squish Foto Photo
Submit your comments on this article
India-Pakistan
Nawaz expects to come home
2002-04-19
  • The leadership of Pakistan Muslim League is believed to have asked their exiled leader Mian Nawaz Sharif to make his return home well in-time - before the October elections - and defy all government's restrictions if the party is to maintain its vote bank. The party's central information secretary Siddiqul Farooq endorsed these reports when he declared at a news conference on Thursday that "Nawaz Sharif will return home, come what may, and his homecoming will give a surprise to his followers as well as detractors".

    He strongly contradicted existence of any agreement which bound Nawaz Sharif from coming home for 10 years and challenged that if the government possessed such a document it should produce it before the people. He, however, avoided replying to a question whether the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was not a guarantor in the said agreement which restricted Nawaz Sharif from indulging in politics. He said that Nawaz Sharif had not stopped his political activities during his stay in Saudi Arabia as a number of his interviews had been published in Pakistan and other countries.
    Nawaz is probably expecting to work some sort of a deal, either with Perv to throw support his way, or with Qazi if he thinks he can tip the scales that way without getting bumped off. Qazi will see him as a tool to be used and discarded, and Perv will be hesitant to ally with him because of his (Perv's) anticorruption stand - Nawaz being a case study in corruption. This is the time to show up because if Perv thumps him hard he's alienated any PML followers who might support him.
    • Posted by:Fred Pruitt

    00:00