LAHORE, Pakistan - In the lobby with polished marble of his house, the former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif held two lions ausgestopften wild. They were purchased in Africa, and they welcomed the attention of visitors with piercing.
Sharif and his mark of lions and tigers have been raging in the walls of his poster campaign across Pakistan. In a sense, they take a metaphor for a man who was once on the brink of extinction policy, but was again presented as a powerful force in a tense period.
"Pakistan is in a very serious situation. I am here to do what I can," said Sharif Thursday, sitting in a silk and gold in his rich country thronelike chair at home. "However, the country ' no need for a one-man show. Pakistan has become a laughingstock. We need General Musharraf to step. We need a return to the judges, the return to the rule of law, a return to democracy
In November, after the return to Pakistan of Sharif eight years of exile, it was widely overshadowed by Benazir Bhutto, whose staff and magnetism storied largely dominated the political landscape. Now, a week after the assassination of Bhutto, Sharif is the country which has experienced most of the leaders of the opposition and seen by many as an observer.
Given the death of Bhutto, Sharif, 58, the Prime Minister, while Pakistan, the first atomic bomb and who has even tried to introduce Islamic law, which tries to distinguish itself from an overhaul schmähte -- and allegedly corrupt - in the form of a guide to sustainable situation Regroups different political parties and religious groups. Its capacity to do so, is all the more important at a time when political instability and Islamic extremism, the rise is the increase in security, not only in this region but also in Washington.
His party, the Pakistan Muslim League-N, caution should be officials from the United States, but it has the support of longtime Pakistanis, which in turn thousands, to see Sharif.
Playing his cards right
Journalism commentators have in recent times to call Sharif "Nawaz Light" policy, and experts say it plays its cards well. Once a character which he now denounces the president Pervez Musharraf as a military dictator. And even though she was once a bitter enemy of Bhutto, it has a number of calculating moves well a call to their loyalists.
He rushed Bhutto to visit at the hospital. He laid a wreath at the tomb, "said Sartaj Aziz, Minister of Finance, then foreign minister under Sharif, the prime minister was elected twice in the 1990's. "It is powerful by the conduct, if the country feels at a loss. He learned a lot in exile. "
Sharif is a product of the army. In mid-1980, when he is a businessman unknown, it was protected by the hand of Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, a military dictator of Pakistan, which once Sharif as his "son".
It was, with the blessing of the army, the Minister Sharif was director of the province of Punjab politically important in 1985. He came, finally, as a religion sides alternative to Bhutto, the new and had a secular purpose.
"The West was possessed by Benazir, who was so handsome and charming, and the complaint of a Muslim woman heads. Sharif but is more indigenous. He is the Pakistan," said Ahsan Iqbal, a spokesman for the party Sharif.
With a strain to build a reputation and affectionate for large quantities of rice and lamb kabobs Pakistan, Sharif, are very popular among Muslims observant and respected for Pakistan of the atomic bomb, a cornerstone of national pride against arch-rival India.
He was first elected prime minister in the year 1990 on a platform of ending corruption. He joined in July 1993 after standing enmities with the President of Pakistan at that time, Ghulam Ishaq Khan, had criticized the extent of corruption.
In 1997, he was re-elected Prime Minister Sharif erdrutschartigen after its victory of the opposing party. His accomplishments, the buildings of a South Asia, the longest highways and other development projects.
But it was also Sharif, during the second term Musharraf unanimously appointed as head of the army. It turned out to be a fateful decision: After further charges of corruption against Sharif, and had autocratic tendencies, it was in October 1999 in a coup d'etat without bloodshed by the military . As President Musharraf has been installed.
Bitter enemies
Musharraf Sharif, and remained bitter enemies since. In September Sharif tried to return to Pakistan from Saudi Arabia, where he is on prevention, in a time of prison Deal with Musharraf, he met to repeal a criminal conviction. He spent a few hours at Islamabad airport Musharraf to the new deported. Sharif's return to the Lahore last one with festivals and street cries of "The lion is back, the lion is back!"
The Bush administration has the hat before Sharif, the number of staff that the opinion is to maintain close relationships with the Islamist extremists. But Thursday, Sharif said that the United States Embassy in Islamabad and had contacted him for a meeting - a sign, he suggested that the increase of its popularity.
Elizabeth Colton, spokesman for the Swiss embassy in Islamabad, confirmed that the American officials were ready for a meeting with Sharif, and other political leaders in Pakistan.
Analysts say that perceptions of American Pakistani radical Sharif are very strong and its links with Islamist groups leverage could contribute to a better fight against the threat posed by religious extremism in the region.
"He has an apartment in London, he has taken to make him his hair and look more beautiful, it is a serious businessman," said Talat Masood, a retired educator and political analysts. "He is not an extremist. That's a total misunderstanding. "
In the interview, President Bush has proposed Sharif, we must not forget that in the course of our perception of time, and that the alliances relocate.
"Once there are no long, Americans have the support of Osama bin Laden and the so-called freedom fighters in Afghanistan. Mr. Bush always, although Musharraf Bhutto was killed on his watch. Terrorism grows still under a dictatorship, "Sharif Dit.
Critics say it is not clear how far Sharif has changed. They say that the Taliban in Afghanistan has increased during his tenure, and that its management and inflammation regional tensions by detonating a nuclear weapon in the year 1998, despite the appeals in the United States remember.
On Thursday, when he asked to have made mistakes, Sharif was leaning back in his chair and silence. His eyes seriously, he leaned back and forth.
"My only mistake was to support Musharraf," he says with a depth to compensate for his neck, then a laugh. "It's a mistake
Sharif and his mark of lions and tigers have been raging in the walls of his poster campaign across Pakistan. In a sense, they take a metaphor for a man who was once on the brink of extinction policy, but was again presented as a powerful force in a tense period.
"Pakistan is in a very serious situation. I am here to do what I can," said Sharif Thursday, sitting in a silk and gold in his rich country thronelike chair at home. "However, the country ' no need for a one-man show. Pakistan has become a laughingstock. We need General Musharraf to step. We need a return to the judges, the return to the rule of law, a return to democracy
In November, after the return to Pakistan of Sharif eight years of exile, it was widely overshadowed by Benazir Bhutto, whose staff and magnetism storied largely dominated the political landscape. Now, a week after the assassination of Bhutto, Sharif is the country which has experienced most of the leaders of the opposition and seen by many as an observer.
Given the death of Bhutto, Sharif, 58, the Prime Minister, while Pakistan, the first atomic bomb and who has even tried to introduce Islamic law, which tries to distinguish itself from an overhaul schmähte -- and allegedly corrupt - in the form of a guide to sustainable situation Regroups different political parties and religious groups. Its capacity to do so, is all the more important at a time when political instability and Islamic extremism, the rise is the increase in security, not only in this region but also in Washington.
His party, the Pakistan Muslim League-N, caution should be officials from the United States, but it has the support of longtime Pakistanis, which in turn thousands, to see Sharif.
Playing his cards right
Journalism commentators have in recent times to call Sharif "Nawaz Light" policy, and experts say it plays its cards well. Once a character which he now denounces the president Pervez Musharraf as a military dictator. And even though she was once a bitter enemy of Bhutto, it has a number of calculating moves well a call to their loyalists.
He rushed Bhutto to visit at the hospital. He laid a wreath at the tomb, "said Sartaj Aziz, Minister of Finance, then foreign minister under Sharif, the prime minister was elected twice in the 1990's. "It is powerful by the conduct, if the country feels at a loss. He learned a lot in exile. "
Sharif is a product of the army. In mid-1980, when he is a businessman unknown, it was protected by the hand of Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, a military dictator of Pakistan, which once Sharif as his "son".
It was, with the blessing of the army, the Minister Sharif was director of the province of Punjab politically important in 1985. He came, finally, as a religion sides alternative to Bhutto, the new and had a secular purpose.
"The West was possessed by Benazir, who was so handsome and charming, and the complaint of a Muslim woman heads. Sharif but is more indigenous. He is the Pakistan," said Ahsan Iqbal, a spokesman for the party Sharif.
With a strain to build a reputation and affectionate for large quantities of rice and lamb kabobs Pakistan, Sharif, are very popular among Muslims observant and respected for Pakistan of the atomic bomb, a cornerstone of national pride against arch-rival India.
He was first elected prime minister in the year 1990 on a platform of ending corruption. He joined in July 1993 after standing enmities with the President of Pakistan at that time, Ghulam Ishaq Khan, had criticized the extent of corruption.
In 1997, he was re-elected Prime Minister Sharif erdrutschartigen after its victory of the opposing party. His accomplishments, the buildings of a South Asia, the longest highways and other development projects.
But it was also Sharif, during the second term Musharraf unanimously appointed as head of the army. It turned out to be a fateful decision: After further charges of corruption against Sharif, and had autocratic tendencies, it was in October 1999 in a coup d'etat without bloodshed by the military . As President Musharraf has been installed.
Bitter enemies
Musharraf Sharif, and remained bitter enemies since. In September Sharif tried to return to Pakistan from Saudi Arabia, where he is on prevention, in a time of prison Deal with Musharraf, he met to repeal a criminal conviction. He spent a few hours at Islamabad airport Musharraf to the new deported. Sharif's return to the Lahore last one with festivals and street cries of "The lion is back, the lion is back!"
The Bush administration has the hat before Sharif, the number of staff that the opinion is to maintain close relationships with the Islamist extremists. But Thursday, Sharif said that the United States Embassy in Islamabad and had contacted him for a meeting - a sign, he suggested that the increase of its popularity.
Elizabeth Colton, spokesman for the Swiss embassy in Islamabad, confirmed that the American officials were ready for a meeting with Sharif, and other political leaders in Pakistan.
Analysts say that perceptions of American Pakistani radical Sharif are very strong and its links with Islamist groups leverage could contribute to a better fight against the threat posed by religious extremism in the region.
"He has an apartment in London, he has taken to make him his hair and look more beautiful, it is a serious businessman," said Talat Masood, a retired educator and political analysts. "He is not an extremist. That's a total misunderstanding. "
In the interview, President Bush has proposed Sharif, we must not forget that in the course of our perception of time, and that the alliances relocate.
"Once there are no long, Americans have the support of Osama bin Laden and the so-called freedom fighters in Afghanistan. Mr. Bush always, although Musharraf Bhutto was killed on his watch. Terrorism grows still under a dictatorship, "Sharif Dit.
Critics say it is not clear how far Sharif has changed. They say that the Taliban in Afghanistan has increased during his tenure, and that its management and inflammation regional tensions by detonating a nuclear weapon in the year 1998, despite the appeals in the United States remember.
On Thursday, when he asked to have made mistakes, Sharif was leaning back in his chair and silence. His eyes seriously, he leaned back and forth.
"My only mistake was to support Musharraf," he says with a depth to compensate for his neck, then a laugh. "It's a mistake
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