karachi
MPA (400+ posts)
Some say if Nawaz Sharif and Zardaris coffers, which remain stashed overseas, are brought back to the country and used or even put up as a collateral, Pakistan can borrow and survive more respectably
and honorably and get more bang for its buck than the monies promised by USA under KL Bill. We should replace it with a Nawaz-Zardari Bill.
There is also a sizeable number of people who opine that in fact the Kerry Lugar Bill (KL Bill) is in fact a Nawaz-Zardari Bill.
There may be some semblance of truth in such an observation.
The army-speicifc conditions inserted in the KL bill benefits Zardari presently but it will also benefit Sharif if and when in future he and his party comes to power. More than Zardari, it is Sharif who is vociferous in his views on armys role in politics.
While Zardari was not a direct victim of the armys strong role in the politics of Pakistan, Sharif was a direct victim and the worst sufferer. He remains committed he says in changing armys role in politics.
The Charter of Democracy (COD) signed between Benazir and Sharif basically carries almost all those scenarios to tackle the army and the establshment as has now been somewhat mentioned in the KL bill. It is said that Hussain Haqqani, Pakistans ambassador to USA (PML-N calls Haqqani the US envoy in Pakistans embassy in USA) has been directly involved in inserting these army-specific conditions which actually forms the main thesis of his book Pakistan between Mosque and Military.
The KL bill has delivered the message to the army, which was first mentioned in 2006 in the COD documents and then in the PPP manifesto during polls of 2008
What Nawaz could not or may have not achieved with the PPP in or out of parliament, he has quietly achieved it through the KL Bill.
No wonder Sharif remains so tightlipped, quiet, unanswered on the KL Bill to-date, one anti-Nawaz said
Watch Najam Sethis take on this issue:
http://pk.despardes.com/2009/10/12/toni ... tv-oct-10/
and honorably and get more bang for its buck than the monies promised by USA under KL Bill. We should replace it with a Nawaz-Zardari Bill.
There is also a sizeable number of people who opine that in fact the Kerry Lugar Bill (KL Bill) is in fact a Nawaz-Zardari Bill.
There may be some semblance of truth in such an observation.
The army-speicifc conditions inserted in the KL bill benefits Zardari presently but it will also benefit Sharif if and when in future he and his party comes to power. More than Zardari, it is Sharif who is vociferous in his views on armys role in politics.
While Zardari was not a direct victim of the armys strong role in the politics of Pakistan, Sharif was a direct victim and the worst sufferer. He remains committed he says in changing armys role in politics.
The Charter of Democracy (COD) signed between Benazir and Sharif basically carries almost all those scenarios to tackle the army and the establshment as has now been somewhat mentioned in the KL bill. It is said that Hussain Haqqani, Pakistans ambassador to USA (PML-N calls Haqqani the US envoy in Pakistans embassy in USA) has been directly involved in inserting these army-specific conditions which actually forms the main thesis of his book Pakistan between Mosque and Military.
The KL bill has delivered the message to the army, which was first mentioned in 2006 in the COD documents and then in the PPP manifesto during polls of 2008
What Nawaz could not or may have not achieved with the PPP in or out of parliament, he has quietly achieved it through the KL Bill.
No wonder Sharif remains so tightlipped, quiet, unanswered on the KL Bill to-date, one anti-Nawaz said
Watch Najam Sethis take on this issue:
http://pk.despardes.com/2009/10/12/toni ... tv-oct-10/
