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| Musharraf failed to acomplish his target | | Clinton saved Nawaz Sharif from being hanged | |
B L KAK
NEW DELHI, NOV 21
Timely intervention by Bill Clinton averted a catastrophe in Pakistan when Gen. Parvez Musharraf deposed and imprisoned the then Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif. Clinton had serious apprehensions about the life and safety of Nawaz Sharif and was afraid that those who had overthrown him might also hang him.
Pakistan's English newspaper, Daily Times, reported on Tuesday that sources in the then Clinton administration in Washington was afraid that the deposed Premier of Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif, might not be permitted to live. The Pakistani publication quoted unidentified 'sources' in the Clinton administration as saying that Bill Clinton had quietly taken up the mater with the Saudi royal house.
Bill Clinton was reported to have expressed his concerns to the Saudi royal house. Clinton, according to the report appearing in the Pakistani newspaper, had asked the Saudi royal house to intervene to make Pak President, Gen. Musharraf, to set free Nawaz Sharif, who had been charged with a range of "grave crimes".
If the report were to be believed, Clinton did not want to take the matter up one-on-one with the new Pakistani military leader, Gen. Musharaf. Neither was Clinton initially willing to go to Pakistan because of the October 1999 coup,according to the report.
Bill Clinton changed his mind, after the Saudi royal house interceded. The Saudi royal house, the report divulged, urged Clinton not to leave out Pakistan when he went to India. Clinton agreed in the end, but kept the visit short, laid down certain conditions, which were fulfilled, such as an unedited live address to the people of
Yet another revelation: Bill Clinton also wished not to be photographed with Gen. Parvez Musharraf. And sources in the Clintoin administration were reported to have said that had 9/11 not happened, the situation would have been quite "different" from what it was today.
Thus it came to pass that the Saudis negotiated a complicated deal with the Musharraf regime and the former Pakistani leader that eventually saw him and his family flown to safety to Saudi Arabia. |
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