Meet the NEW BOSS! Same as the OLD BOSS (before the coup):
"Bitterest Rival of Musharraf Returns Home" by CARLOTTA GALL
LAHORE, Pakistan, Nov. 25 — Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is a rich industrialist from Lahore who gained enormous national popularity as prime minister when he oversaw Pakistan’s first nuclear explosions in 1998.
Mr. Sharif, in his brief homecoming speeches, told the crowd that he had ignored the American requests not to conduct nuclear tests that have since made Pakistan a nuclear state:
“I respected your aspirations.”
This guy is a state hero because he let a nuke bomb go off against U.S. wishes?
Uh-oh!
Yet it was with the evident cooperation of the police and the provincial authorities that Nawaz Sharif transferred into a custom-built open-top campaign truck, emblazoned with huge posters of himself and his brother, and spoke to several thousand supporters at a large intersection about three miles from the airport on the way into town.
Yeah, he didn't get bombed like Bhutto, so Mushy must have cut a deal in Saudi, huh?
So why won't the Times tell us that? Why they gotta lie to us?
Sahrif, speaking into a microphone from the top of the bus, told supporters he is likely to take a strong stand against any compromise with the general, playing on the growing frustrations of the public with his government:
“For eight years I was away from you and you were away from me, but I resided in your hearts and you were in my heart. I can see the proof of it in front of me right now. My heart tells me that, God willing, change is inevitable. These politicians who make deals who bow their heads in front of a dictator, we have to defeat them.”
People gathered at the airport to greet Mr. Sharif included bankers, factory owners, and students, and many said they were tried and frustrated after eight years of military rule.
Yeah, I know how they feel!
Tariq Sharif, 34, a banker from Lahore, adding that he was no relation to the Sharif brothers:
“He’s a populist leader and for democracy to take, you need a populist leader. He is the only savior of Pakistan. We have had it up to here with the military. They are not doing the job.”
Then Musharaff is a liability, and likely gone soon!
As soon as Mushy hurts the military, the generals will dump him.
Don't expect it tomorrow, but wait for it, readers!
