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Strategies & Market Trends : India Coffee House

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To: Mohan Marette who wrote (4956)7/6/1999 10:13:00 PM
From: Mohan Marette  Read Replies (2) of 12475
 
PAKISTAN'S DILEMMA- Sharif in a jam.

There is increasing opposition within Pakistan to the military excercises its army is engaged in. But prime minister Nawaz Sharif is caught in a cleft stick - on the one hand domestic and international pressure is on him to withdraw. At the same time, though, the Pakistani army and militant groups oppose any backing down,'.. writes Mariana Baabar from Islamabad...

Is Nawaz Sharif in a jam over the Kargil operation?

No one is smiling in Pakistan. Least of all Nawaz Sharif, whose recent photographs betray a very gloomy, worried and dejected prime minister. It is for the first time in over two years that the house of Ittefaq (the Sharif family-owned conglomerate) has been completely bypassed in one of the most vital defence policy decisions since the test of a nuclear bomb last May.

Sharif—who's also the defence minister of Pakistan—is not amused. This is despite the fact that Raiwind (as Nawaz's family estate is known) had ensured a handpicked chief of the isi, General Ziauddin, who was to act as the eyes and ears of Sharif......
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