Nawaz's support of Taliban is security risk to Pak

[Raahi]

@khoji

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:
http://www.bitsonline.net/eqbal/articles_by_eqbal_view.asp?id=79&cid=2

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.

That’s bull**** and crap. Nawaz is an opportunist money making Industrialist, he and (Afghan) Taliban both go in the opposite directions. What was his move in the late 90s was just his hunger for more power as some Amir ul Mu’mineen like Mulla Umar or perhaps he was trying to be Zia-ul-Haque II. He’s not as honest to Pakistan as Taliban are to their ideological views, that’s why he was thrown away by Musharraf and he was doing business in Saudi Arabia without any resistance to Parvez Musharraf. Compared to him, Taliban of Afghanistan have always been struggling and defeating Christian invaders - very honest to their version of Islam.