This report below was interesting to read today. And with this a thought occured to create a thread where we can post and discuss various serious, not so serious, insane and comical blunders Mian Nawaz Sharif and Benazir Bhutto have made in the past or are making at the moment or may make in the future. The nature of the blunders could either affect them personally, their party, colleagues or Pakistan. So do share whatever you feel should be mentioned here, majorly by Mian, BB but episodes from other players could also be accomodated here and there.
To start with, this report says Nawaz Sharif is suffering the Saudi wrath, which i’m sure must be giving him enough sleepless nights already because it was the Saudi royals who had saved his behind in Dec 2000.
http://dawn.com/2006/10/29/nat3.htm
JEDDAH, Oct 28: Nawaz Sharif’s stay in Saudi Arabia has finally come to an end. But the million-dollar question is if the Sharif family was forced by the Saudi authorities to vacate the sprawling, old Saroor Palace in central Jeddah, their residence for almost seven years, or they vacated it of their own free will as they are claiming? The Sharifs, struggling to keep their claim to being Pakistan’s first family, keep generating controversies wherever they go.
Some here insist the Sharif family ‘have been evicted’ from the Saroor Palace in Jeddah by the Saudi government for violating the terms and conditions of their decade-long exile brokered with President Pervez Musharraf. The old palace reportedly belonged to Prince Saud Al Faisal, the Saudi foreign minister.
Former prime minister** Nawaz Sharif had applied for a British visa so that he could travel to the UK to facilitate his son Hasan Nawaz’s treatment. **After several delays, some members of the family, including Nawaz Sharif and his wife, were finally stamped UK visas by the British mission here. The visa was valid for six months. That period is over now.
According to sources, the delay in stamping the UK visa to the former prime minister was that the British mission wanted the applicants to clarify where would they return after the expiry of their visa term.
The Sharif family had apparently hesitated to put Saudi Arabia as their return destination.
The issue had delayed the granting of visa to the Sharifs by several weeks then. Nawaz Sharif finally left for London nine months ago, reportedly on the condition that he would not take part in politics and would soon return to Saudi Arabia.
However, in defiance of the condition, he got his UK visa extended and is also participating in politics — a move that has reportedly irked Riyadh.
The Blunder:
“Aur kisi ka ban na bab apna to ban” as a famous quote goes. This is again a classic example of “kulharri apne paon per” again from mian sahab within a span of 7 yrs. I hope he realizes that annoying the Saudis was an extremely stupid thing to do. And though hypocrisy may not be a deal for him, but when it involves Arab traditions of hosptality and value for word etc it’s serious stuff. Not that he’s in any deep trouble yet, but he’s just proving his intentions, lies, and deception. Fortunately this blunder doesnt affect Pakistan directly.