Nawaz's support of Taliban is security risk to Pak

Obama · March 17, 2009, 6:34pm

Nawaz has been an ardent supporter of Taliban. I am afraid that his coming to power at this critical juncture will be bad news for Pakistan, because Pak is already facing Taliban mutiny.

southasiawatch’s Blog | Talking Points Memo | The Devil We Already Know: Nawaz Sharif attempting to destabilize Pakistan and undermine relations with the U.S.

Sharif is on record stating he would prefer Pakistan to be run like the Taleban ran Afghanistan, and we all know how well that turned out. Sharif’s reckless embrace of religious extremism led him to try and impose Sharia (Islamic law) on Pakistan in 1998 and declare himself “Amirul Momineen” (Leader of the Faithful/Believers).

Following is Eqbal Ahmed’s column of 1998:
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Prime Minister
Sharif wishes to compensate by giving them the gift of God, the Shari’a, five
enforced prayers a day, and a fully empowered Amirul Momineen. He must be
feeling very feeble indeed.

Now that the PPP govt and Zardari have accomodated the Taliban of Swat to have Sharia Law…by your reasoning Zaradari and Gilani are also Taliban Supporters.…