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ZARDARI & NAWAZ WONT SEND THEIR SONS IN THE ARMY?
By Dr Shahid Qureshi
Sunday 05 July 2009
"Prince William & Prince Harry are no match to sons of corrupt Pakistani politicians, as true Royals both have done active duty on the front line."
"Politicians are good at sending other peoples boys on the front line to be killed and their own sons and daughters to London for future rulings"
Can Asif Zardari, Nawaz Sharif, Yousaf Gillani, and others send their boys to fight and support the Pakistani Armed Force on the front line in FATA, SAWAT and Waziristan? These cowards, corrupt, and compromised Pakistani politicians themselves have not visited the soldiers? Shouldnt President Zardari Commandant in Chief, Prime Minister Yousaf Gillani, Nawaz Sharif, Altaf Hussain, visit Pakistani soldiers on the front line for moral boosting like President Obama, Prime Minister Gordon Brown do?
Why you refused to follow the orders of a US General in Bosnia, I quietly asked General Sir Mike Jackson former Chief of British Armed Forces, who was sitting next to me in a seminar in London few weeks ago. He smiled and quietly said, read my book its all in it. A British General said, no to the American! It is a must read for President Zardari to learn how to say no. But can he?
British Royals mostly take serving in the armed forces as career from Prince Philip, Prince Charles, Prince Andrew, Princess Ann and now Prince Harry and Prince Williams who both did active service on the front line in trenches. Soldering is not a job it is a passion and that also runs in blood. There could never be a comparison or match between Prince William, Prince Harry, and sons of corrupt Pakistani politicians? Credit should be given where it is due?
Though Pakistans armed forces are voluntary yet these ruthless politicians are good at sending other peoples boys on the front line to be killed in actions and their own sons and daughters to London and New York for future rulings. The way grooming is going on we can compare Bilawal Zardari with Dilip Singh son of Sikh leader Ranjeet Singh?
Altaf Hussain is an exception because he is a British Citizen. He can join British Territorial Army as volunteer when he has free time from his telephonic wars? He told MJ Akbar of Asian Age something like that, I was refused commission in Pakistan Army because I was a Mohajir. So his men allegedly attacked and tortured Major Kaleem and others of Pakistani army instead?
ZA Bhutto, Nawaz Sharif and many others used the double sole military boots to elevate themselves? Nawaz Sharif had no connection with the Pakistani feudal elite. His family moved from Jati Umra near Amritsar and by 1960 they owned a few modest size factories iron foundry, ice making, and water pump factory. Some how Mian Sharif managed to reach General Jill, as General Jilani was known and begged him to give a break in politics to Nawaz Sharif. Nawaz Sharif was appointed as finance minister in 1983 of Punjab.
According to a Magazine published in London Mian Sharif, smart, wise and business minded late father of Nawaz Sharif aka Abbaji invited Chief of Army Staff, (late) General Asif Nawaz to his Lahore residence. After a fatherly tte--tte, Abbaji told the new army chief that he was like his son and requested him to take his two sons Nawaz and Shabaz under his wings: and also told the children that they must follow and never disregard the General Sahibs advice. And one last thing Abbaji said to the General Sahib, as he came to see him out off at the porch of his house, my both children have a Mercedes each, and here is the key to yours, you are like a son to me. Nawaz Sharifs motto was that he could buy any general if he sent his wife on a day trip to Karachi. It didnt work with General Asif Nawaz, he felt offended and therefore, instead of being able to buy the General, Nawaz Sharif had instead lost his respect too.
In 1981 the family business group Ittefaqs turn over was Rs 337 million, but by 1987 it had soared to at least Rs 2,500 million, that is according to the groups own accounts. Within four years Ittefaq had become one of the wealthiest private industrial groups in Pakistan. Hard work and grace of Allah explained Shabaz Sharif. One can imagine the miraculous growth in the assets of Billions in 2009. According to Asia Week Rehman Malik, Benazir Bhuttos close ally produced 200-page report of MNSs corruption.
I sent Ghaus Ali Shah to give a lift home to General Musharaf (on 10th October 1999) and inform him that he has been deposed in absence said Nawaz Sharif while addressing a meeting of Imran Khan in Manchester in July 2007. How intelligent was to promote an engineering corps, Kashmiri, General Zia Butt and decorate him with the badges purchased from Sadar Bazar Pindi, MNS must be thinking in his spare time while combing his new hairs? Dhirubhai Ambani (late) was one of Indias top magnets. He had set up a big oil refinery in Jamnagar, but what bothered him was the very high premium demanded by the British insurance company. The insurance company said the refinery was only 130 km from Pakistan, which may be in the event of an India-Pakistan war, the first bombing target, but they might consider reducing the premium if Ambani brought a certificatefrom Pakistan that it would not attack the refinery in case of a war with India.
In March 1999 Nawaz Sharif had received at his London flat anIndian editor, R K Mishra, accompanied by a famous Bombay film star (may be Amitabh Bachan). Mishra chaired the Ambani group of Observer newspapers and Amabani reported to control eight ministers in the Vajpayee government at the time and late Mr Ambani known to have visited Nawaz Sharif as Vajpayees emissary during and after the Kargil crisis.
In September 1999, Pakistan High Commission in London while Riaz Sami was High Commissioner, issued him a multi-entry Pakistani visa. In any event whatever else went on during these visits Ambani got the certificate and the insurance company drastically reduced the premium had demanded reportedly.
This writer met Syed Mushahid Husain in London and asked about this Ambani gate scandal. Nawaz Sharifs information minister denied having any knowledge of relationship point blank. The writer also asked Mian Shabaz Sharif about their relationship with Ambanis in London at an Iftiar Party few years ago. Shabaz Sharif said, I have no knowledge but Baraa Mian saab (MNS) know about it. The Jamnager refinery was just one instance, where the then dismissed and exiled prime ministers business interests impinged on national security and which were reported in the press.
It is highly significant that when the Kargil crisis broke out both George Fernandez and K S Sudarshan, the former a socialist and Indias defence minister and the later leader of BJP militant wing RSS themselves exculpate Nawaz Sharif of any blame. If the Indians were trying to protect Nawaz Sharif, they must have had very good reasons to do so.
Nawaz Sharifs son Hassan Nawaz had been phoning and writing to Indian Defence Minister George Fernandez for help after the arrest of MNS in Pakistan? It is interesting that while Pakistani soldiers and Kashmiri freedom fighters were battling against the Indian army on the freezing heights of Kargil, Nawaz Sharifs business proxies were selling sugar to India. India did not need to import any sugar and yet if Vajipayee had accepted to buy Pakistani sugar it was only to sweeten his relationship with Nawaz Sharif.
Now again in 2009 when Pakistani soldiers are sacrificing their lives in Sawat, FATA and Waziristan, President Asif Zardari, Prime Minister Yousaf Gillani, Nawaz Sharif and Shabaz Sharif visited London to see their sons and daughters but not the Armed Forces of Pakistan on the frontline. Why? This is not meant to be a dossier on politicians wheeling and dealing, but it is about the implication of their wheeling and dealing on national security.
(Dr Shahid Qureshi is award wining journalist and writer on foreign policy & security based in London)
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ZARDARI & NAWAZ WONT SEND THEIR SONS IN THE ARMY?
By Dr Shahid Qureshi
Sunday 05 July 2009
"Prince William & Prince Harry are no match to sons of corrupt Pakistani politicians, as true Royals both have done active duty on the front line."
"Politicians are good at sending other peoples boys on the front line to be killed and their own sons and daughters to London for future rulings"
Can Asif Zardari, Nawaz Sharif, Yousaf Gillani, and others send their boys to fight and support the Pakistani Armed Force on the front line in FATA, SAWAT and Waziristan? These cowards, corrupt, and compromised Pakistani politicians themselves have not visited the soldiers? Shouldnt President Zardari Commandant in Chief, Prime Minister Yousaf Gillani, Nawaz Sharif, Altaf Hussain, visit Pakistani soldiers on the front line for moral boosting like President Obama, Prime Minister Gordon Brown do?
Why you refused to follow the orders of a US General in Bosnia, I quietly asked General Sir Mike Jackson former Chief of British Armed Forces, who was sitting next to me in a seminar in London few weeks ago. He smiled and quietly said, read my book its all in it. A British General said, no to the American! It is a must read for President Zardari to learn how to say no. But can he?
British Royals mostly take serving in the armed forces as career from Prince Philip, Prince Charles, Prince Andrew, Princess Ann and now Prince Harry and Prince Williams who both did active service on the front line in trenches. Soldering is not a job it is a passion and that also runs in blood. There could never be a comparison or match between Prince William, Prince Harry, and sons of corrupt Pakistani politicians? Credit should be given where it is due?
Though Pakistans armed forces are voluntary yet these ruthless politicians are good at sending other peoples boys on the front line to be killed in actions and their own sons and daughters to London and New York for future rulings. The way grooming is going on we can compare Bilawal Zardari with Dilip Singh son of Sikh leader Ranjeet Singh?
Altaf Hussain is an exception because he is a British Citizen. He can join British Territorial Army as volunteer when he has free time from his telephonic wars? He told MJ Akbar of Asian Age something like that, I was refused commission in Pakistan Army because I was a Mohajir. So his men allegedly attacked and tortured Major Kaleem and others of Pakistani army instead?
ZA Bhutto, Nawaz Sharif and many others used the double sole military boots to elevate themselves? Nawaz Sharif had no connection with the Pakistani feudal elite. His family moved from Jati Umra near Amritsar and by 1960 they owned a few modest size factories iron foundry, ice making, and water pump factory. Some how Mian Sharif managed to reach General Jill, as General Jilani was known and begged him to give a break in politics to Nawaz Sharif. Nawaz Sharif was appointed as finance minister in 1983 of Punjab.
According to a Magazine published in London Mian Sharif, smart, wise and business minded late father of Nawaz Sharif aka Abbaji invited Chief of Army Staff, (late) General Asif Nawaz to his Lahore residence. After a fatherly tte--tte, Abbaji told the new army chief that he was like his son and requested him to take his two sons Nawaz and Shabaz under his wings: and also told the children that they must follow and never disregard the General Sahibs advice. And one last thing Abbaji said to the General Sahib, as he came to see him out off at the porch of his house, my both children have a Mercedes each, and here is the key to yours, you are like a son to me. Nawaz Sharifs motto was that he could buy any general if he sent his wife on a day trip to Karachi. It didnt work with General Asif Nawaz, he felt offended and therefore, instead of being able to buy the General, Nawaz Sharif had instead lost his respect too.
In 1981 the family business group Ittefaqs turn over was Rs 337 million, but by 1987 it had soared to at least Rs 2,500 million, that is according to the groups own accounts. Within four years Ittefaq had become one of the wealthiest private industrial groups in Pakistan. Hard work and grace of Allah explained Shabaz Sharif. One can imagine the miraculous growth in the assets of Billions in 2009. According to Asia Week Rehman Malik, Benazir Bhuttos close ally produced 200-page report of MNSs corruption.
I sent Ghaus Ali Shah to give a lift home to General Musharaf (on 10th October 1999) and inform him that he has been deposed in absence said Nawaz Sharif while addressing a meeting of Imran Khan in Manchester in July 2007. How intelligent was to promote an engineering corps, Kashmiri, General Zia Butt and decorate him with the badges purchased from Sadar Bazar Pindi, MNS must be thinking in his spare time while combing his new hairs? Dhirubhai Ambani (late) was one of Indias top magnets. He had set up a big oil refinery in Jamnagar, but what bothered him was the very high premium demanded by the British insurance company. The insurance company said the refinery was only 130 km from Pakistan, which may be in the event of an India-Pakistan war, the first bombing target, but they might consider reducing the premium if Ambani brought a certificatefrom Pakistan that it would not attack the refinery in case of a war with India.
In March 1999 Nawaz Sharif had received at his London flat anIndian editor, R K Mishra, accompanied by a famous Bombay film star (may be Amitabh Bachan). Mishra chaired the Ambani group of Observer newspapers and Amabani reported to control eight ministers in the Vajpayee government at the time and late Mr Ambani known to have visited Nawaz Sharif as Vajpayees emissary during and after the Kargil crisis.
In September 1999, Pakistan High Commission in London while Riaz Sami was High Commissioner, issued him a multi-entry Pakistani visa. In any event whatever else went on during these visits Ambani got the certificate and the insurance company drastically reduced the premium had demanded reportedly.
This writer met Syed Mushahid Husain in London and asked about this Ambani gate scandal. Nawaz Sharifs information minister denied having any knowledge of relationship point blank. The writer also asked Mian Shabaz Sharif about their relationship with Ambanis in London at an Iftiar Party few years ago. Shabaz Sharif said, I have no knowledge but Baraa Mian saab (MNS) know about it. The Jamnager refinery was just one instance, where the then dismissed and exiled prime ministers business interests impinged on national security and which were reported in the press.
It is highly significant that when the Kargil crisis broke out both George Fernandez and K S Sudarshan, the former a socialist and Indias defence minister and the later leader of BJP militant wing RSS themselves exculpate Nawaz Sharif of any blame. If the Indians were trying to protect Nawaz Sharif, they must have had very good reasons to do so.
Nawaz Sharifs son Hassan Nawaz had been phoning and writing to Indian Defence Minister George Fernandez for help after the arrest of MNS in Pakistan? It is interesting that while Pakistani soldiers and Kashmiri freedom fighters were battling against the Indian army on the freezing heights of Kargil, Nawaz Sharifs business proxies were selling sugar to India. India did not need to import any sugar and yet if Vajipayee had accepted to buy Pakistani sugar it was only to sweeten his relationship with Nawaz Sharif.
Now again in 2009 when Pakistani soldiers are sacrificing their lives in Sawat, FATA and Waziristan, President Asif Zardari, Prime Minister Yousaf Gillani, Nawaz Sharif and Shabaz Sharif visited London to see their sons and daughters but not the Armed Forces of Pakistan on the frontline. Why? This is not meant to be a dossier on politicians wheeling and dealing, but it is about the implication of their wheeling and dealing on national security.
(Dr Shahid Qureshi is award wining journalist and writer on foreign policy & security based in London)
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