Nawaz to visit China on July 4

[Leader]

what that fat kid of nawaz doing there in official tour to China?

Lol@ the way shahbaz shrief is standing in that photo and whatever it is that he's wearing.

somethings just cannot be bought with money.

 

[SBD-3]

4th of July seems to be a date that sticks to NZ for doing imp things.

Years ago he went to US too on this date.

"Gentlemen! Thank you very much for gracing our Independence Day". That is how President Bill Clinton greeted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his team at Blair House, the US Presidential Guest House, on July 4, 1999. Coming at the height of the Kargil crisis, the visit was critical. Just across the road from the White House, the almost 200 year-old Blair House has long been associated with events of monumental importance in world history.

The prime minister’s arrival in Washington was shrouded in mystery. The first reports of the visit came to the Pakistan Embassy not from our foreign office but the State Department. Everyone was caught unawares. Hurried meetings were called, confidential internal memos dug up, and briefs developed to be able to lay down all the necessary ground work for the emergency high-octane meeting. Nawaz Sharif arrived on July 3 at Andrews Airbase and was received by Prince Bandar Bin Sultan, the Saudi Ambassador to the US, and then taken for intense briefings.

It was evident at that time that Gen Musharraf’s unauthorised, illogical and non-strategic adventurism had pushed the situation to the precipice and a full-fledged war between two nuclear rivals was imminent. Musharraf’s claim that the prime minister had approved ‘Operation Badr’ (Kargil) is not true. The PM was briefed about the Kargil operation for the first time only around mid-May 1999 when a lot had already happened. Gen Majeed Malik, a military veteran and cabinet minister who attended the briefing, is reported to have strongly opposed the idea and bitterly criticised the operation calling it “silly and utterly illogical”.

By the time Nawaz Sharif touched down in Washington to defuse the situation, the entire world had descended on us in the Pakistan Embassy with Pakistan being criticised heavily, both in the print and the electronic media. In this backdrop, Nawaz Sharif battled his way up – pleading with the world to give diplomacy a chance.

The Americans are known for treating their holidays as sacrosanct and Independence Day is the veritable sanctum sanctorum. US functionaries were visibly ill at ease. Bringing President Clinton to the table to bail Pakistan out of the imbroglio on that day was not, therefore, business as usual. It was made possible in the face of the real and immediate danger of an all-out war. Saudi intervention on Nawaz Sharif’s SOS call made this possible. And the man who could work this miracle was Prince Bandar Bin Sultan.

The unsung hero of Kargil - Malik Zahoor Ahmad

Interesting read. Even in 1999, it seems that NS was in conflict with selected personalities in army, not the institution itself.

Sharif never doubted a military take over. While the agreement was being documented, his anxiety was also mounting: “They will get me Mr President,” he whispered. Clinton quipped: “Yours is a rogue army. Keep them under civilian oversight”. Nawaz retorted: “It is not the army. It is (a) few dirty eggs. They will meddle to cover up the Kargil debacle”. And three months later, the military struck. The coup was inevitable. The ‘Dirty Four’ were afraid of a Kargil investigation and a possible court martial. Washington accepted it as a ‘fait accompli’.

Kargil, Abbotabad, PNS Mehran and PAC Karma attack investigations are a debt long due on this nation. Culprits need to be exposed.

 

[Cyberian]

SUPARCO bhai, I unfortunately don't, for the simple reason that what you just mentioned makes it as though Pakistan's relationship with China goes back 14 centuries when Pakistan came into being only in 1947!!!

Here's what 'India' looked like 14 centuries ago. I don't see Pakistan nor any Muslim influence in the region. It wasn't even called 'India' back then!

Just like I said, we don't expect you to understand our culture. It just went right over your head.

By the way, Pakistan starts its official Islamic history from the year 712 C.E. while the broader Islamic relationship with China goes back 14 centuries (Al-Islam reached modern-day China before Bar-e-Saghir).

 

[Cyberian]

So, after all the noise the anti-Goverment groups were making about Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif making his first official Premiership tour to Afghanistan and/or Saudi Arabia instead of China have been proven to be wrong.m, once again.

It just shows how much and how fast the anti-Government propaganda is preached and spread.

Lying indeed is a cancer of the heart.

 

[OrionHunter]

Just like I said, we don't expect you to understand our culture. It just went right over your head.

Bhai, stop dishing out false statements! How can anything go over my head when I don't have one?