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‘Clinton saved Nawaz Sharif from Mush’s noose’
Islamabad/Washington: In a report that could stir a political controversy in Pakistan, a newspaper report has said that former US president Bill Clinton saved Pakistan’s deposed prime minister Nawaz Sharif from being hanged by the Musharraf regime.
In the report from Washington quoting unnamed officials who served in the Clinton administration, Pakistani newspaper the Daily Times said Clinton had “serious apprehensions about the life and safety” of Sharif and was “afraid that those who had overthrown him might also hang him”.
The sources said Clinton had expressed his concerns to the Saudi royal house, and had asked that it intervene with Musharraf to set free Sharif who had been charged with a range of “grave crimes”. Analysts have pointed to similarities between the post-October 1999 coup scenario and former PM ZA Bhutto’s fate who was hanged after arrest and trial by the regime of Zia-ul Haq.
The Clinton administration officials said the former president “did not want to take up the matter oneon-one with the new Pakistani military leader, and neither was Clinton initially willing to go to Pakistan because of the coup”. They said that the Saudi royal house had interceded and urged Clinton not to leave out Pakistan when he visited India in 2000. Clinton agreed in the end but kept the visit short. IANS
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Islamabad/Washington: In a report that could stir a political controversy in Pakistan, a newspaper report has said that former US president Bill Clinton saved Pakistan’s deposed prime minister Nawaz Sharif from being hanged by the Musharraf regime.
In the report from Washington quoting unnamed officials who served in the Clinton administration, Pakistani newspaper the Daily Times said Clinton had “serious apprehensions about the life and safety” of Sharif and was “afraid that those who had overthrown him might also hang him”.
The sources said Clinton had expressed his concerns to the Saudi royal house, and had asked that it intervene with Musharraf to set free Sharif who had been charged with a range of “grave crimes”. Analysts have pointed to similarities between the post-October 1999 coup scenario and former PM ZA Bhutto’s fate who was hanged after arrest and trial by the regime of Zia-ul Haq.
The Clinton administration officials said the former president “did not want to take up the matter oneon-one with the new Pakistani military leader, and neither was Clinton initially willing to go to Pakistan because of the coup”. They said that the Saudi royal house had interceded and urged Clinton not to leave out Pakistan when he visited India in 2000. Clinton agreed in the end but kept the visit short. IANS
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