Nawaz Sharif working on Taliban's agenda: Sharmila Farooqi

Farooqi said Sharif was defaming army and destabilizing the country on behest of "foreign elements".


Ppi June 26, 2011

KARACHI: Secretary Information for Pakistan Peoples' Party (PPP) Sindh Women Wing, Sharmila Farooqi criticized PML-N chief Mian Nawaz Sharif and said he is working on the Taliban’s agenda.

She claimed that Sharif was defaming the army and destabilizing the country on behest of some foreign elements.

Farooqi said that it was the PPP led democratic government which fully supported the Pakistan Army to secure peace in Swat, FATA and Wazirstan and to foil conspiracies against the country.

“PPP government would continue its support to the armed forces to maintain peace in the restive parts of the country,” Farooqi said.

COMMENTS (21)

Imran Mujahid | 12 years ago | Reply Nawaz Sharif in a candid statement said that he did not know things such as suicide bombings existed when he was prime minister and that during his time terrorism was almost unknown. Either he is too innocent or he thinks the Pakistani people are stupid and have very short memories. May I remind Mr Nawaz Sharif that, on record, 13 suicide bombings happened before 9/11 in Pakistan, with the first being in 1996 against the Egyptian embassy in Islamabad. Also, he should not forget that his whole tenure, especially the second one, was full of sectarian violence. Does anyone remember the sectarian strife in 1997 in which countless lives were lost? If he still does not want to remember, I would like to remind him that he was also targeted once in Raiwind and was lucky to survive. It was his government’s weakness that rendered it unable to take the initiatives necessary to control the sectarian violence that expanded further in later years. The succeeding governments had to make an extra effort to control the violence. Mr Nawaz Sharif, the people are not insane and you cannot fool them again.
Nasir Waraich | 12 years ago | Reply PML-N shares a great deal in adding to the morbid haze. The PML-N does not fully own up to the war on terror. Nawaz Sharif condemns terrorism but falls short of fighting terrorist outfits. Indeed, his brother, the chief minister of the country’s largest province, is pedalling a provincial approach to tackle this nationwide and global terrorism. Rather than embracing the government’s fight against terrorism, he is struggling to keep it off his domain. The PML-N’s policy on the US is at best ambivalent, if not duplicitous. Publicly, it condemns the US policies, but privately, as shown by WikiLeaks, it encourages US engagement. One cannot say it is the fear factor or the ideological affinity that drives the PML-N away from owning up to the war on terror. But President Zardari thinks it is the ideological affinity, hence the epithet ‘Maulvi’ Nawaz Sharif.
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