LONDON • Former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has attacked the exiled premier Nawaz Sharif in her revised autobiography published in London.
Without mincing her words, she has frankly termed him the “political son” of military dictator General Ziaul Haq who was in a favour of Talebanisation of Pakistani society during his second term by becoming “Mullah Omar”.
Bhutto has also made a startling disclosure that had her brother Murtaza returned to Pakistan during her first government in 1988, he might have been imprisoned by the then chief minister of Punjab, Nawaz Sharif, on the behest of the military establishment with the blessing of Ghulam Ishaq Khan.
Because of this growing fear about the fate of Murtaza, Bhutto has recalled that she had even talked to Britain’s Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to seek asylum for Murtaza in London and she had agreed to her request.
According to the “Daughter of the East”, after the sacking of her government in 1996, Sharif became prime minister, and Pakistan was moving backward.
Those are quite blistering allegations against Nawaz Sharif, though some are established facts i.e. that he was a political child of General Zia ul Haq. I wonder if the constantly humiliated Nawaz has anything to say about these utterances by BB?
this seems trite now. While BB was no less, what good did Nawaz Sharif do. Where did all the money that he accumalated to apparently get out of the shackels of IMF and WB go? Under the premise that he would break that begging bowl, he came up with all sorts of farcical schemes ( "qarz utarow, mulk sanwarow" being one) to lure the simple masses.
Also, when Murtaza Bhutto did return to Pakistan during her second stint in power (1993-96) he was killed - allegedly on the orders of her husband, or even herself?
it depends on what you believe minerva, people posting on WA were saying everything BB says is rubbsh when she wrote about Musharraf and Kargil and yet suddenly take this bit about her book as interesting (btw do you know who the publisher is of her book? )
(btw do you know who the publisher is of her book? 
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