Nawaz Sharif says India thinks better of Pak army than he does

[bennedose]

Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif belittles own army, says India has more trust in their capabilities than he does
Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif belittles own army, says India has more trust in their capabilities than he does | idrw.org

In a sensational disclosure kept under wraps so far by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif said he had less faith in the Pakistan Army than India when the two met in New York last month on the sidelines of UN General Assembly.

The remark was not in jest but came in the course of an intense discussion between the two premiers during their one-hour meeting on September 29. Sharif's remarks were reported in a 'Record of Discussion' (RoD) made by the prime minister's aides and compiled by the Prime Minister's Office to be shared with top government functionaries of the Indian government.

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the Indian Prime Minister repeated his assertion that those who have caused the incidents on the Line of Control and the International Border will have to resolve it, and that militaries both countries should be involved. It was then Sharif signed off with the remark reposing mistrust in his own army, telling Singh that India had more faith in their capabilities than he did.

The remark is significant because it revealed that Sharif continues to struggle with a powerful army at home. It is also a reassertion that India will have to deal with multiple power centres in Pakistan, even more significant in the present context when the pressure is on Sharif to give a powerful postretirement role to his hard-line Army Chief General Ashfaq Kayani, who wants to handle the Kashmir and Afghanistan affairs as National Security Advisor and control Sharif's foreign and strategic policy. Sharif also raised the issue of Baluchistan to which Manmohan responded that no evidence has been handed over by Pakistan on this accusation which has been leveled earlier as well.

Response

Last week on his way back from the summit meetings in Russia and China, Manmohan expressed his disappointment at the happenings on the LoC. "Let me say that I am disappointed, because in the New York meeting, there was a general agreement on both the sides that peace and tranquillity should be maintained on the border, on the Line of Control as well as on the international border and this has not happened."

Nawaz's statement exposes the fissures in the Pakistan establishment, but it also brings to the fore Nawaz's Janus faced approach as he is neither willing nor capable of reining in the army, but he is willing to run down his own army to showcase to the international community that he holds the reins of power in Pakistan.

 

[Ray]

Sharif is trying to fly the coop!

 

[debasree]

He try to exagarate try to pressure us

 

[sayareakd]

First NS said something to MMS, now master stoke by MMS to leak this info, NS will have hard time in his country.

 

[ladder]

First NS said something to MMS, now master stoke by MMS to leak this info, NS will have hard time in his country.

He should have known, The characteristics of dehati aurat is that she can't keep secrets, she would spill the beans during chit-chat.
To have known one trait of dehati aurat that she is always complaining but to not have known the other is half knowledge on the part of NS.
And as the saying goes, half knowledge is dangerous.

 

[sayareakd]

He should have known, The characteristics of dehati aurat is that she can't keep secrets, she would spill the beans during chit-chat.
To have known one trait of dehati aurat that she is always complaining but to not have known the other is half knowledge on the part of NS.
And as the saying goes, half knowledge is dangerous.

Ladder he has called MMS as Dehati aurat, but what MMS has done, might result in NS getting Jail again, when Army take over in Pakistan.

 

[ladder]

Ladder he has called MMS as Dehati aurat, but what MMS has done, might result in NS getting Jail again, when Army take over in Pakistan.

Eagerly waiting for that day.

 

[sayareakd]

Eagerly waiting for that day.

me too..........

 

[rugved]

Did Nawaz Sharif say that because he has no control over his army?

 

[anoop_mig25]

He is just playing .

Like he did durning kargil .

He says that army is not in his control to indians/west while allows army freedom to carry out operations

 

[Virendra]

Oh by the way, did anyone read about the coarse treatment of Nawaz Sharif at the meeting with US Congressmen?
The latter were blunt in their attacks on the Pak policies, to the levels that surprised the Pakistani diplomats and the PM.

At many instances Sharif was found wanting and had to get his staff's help in responding to the terse questions put up by the US congressmen.
The Americans also pressed him to release Dr. Shakil Afridi, to which Sharif promised a re-look at the matter..

Nonetheless, Pak PM seems to have had the last laugh, as Kerry prepared to ask the US Congress approve resumption of aid to Pakistan.
As of now US $ 1.6 billion is expected to be given in for of this aid.

Regards,
Virendra

 

[Compersion]

Apparently he calls the Indian PM a "Dehati aurat" and now apparently he slights his own Pak Army.

So we have a broad consensus on this: That Sharif said Manmohan Singh complaining to US about Pakistan was like a dehati aurat involving a third party in a dispute with her husband. For the sake of clarity, he did not say Manmohan himself was like a dehati aurat, he only said his whining about Pakistan to Obama was so dehati aurat-like. The pinprick shouldn't prick because Manmohan is not an aurat in the first place. Dehati can be a complement if you look at the word from the aam aadmi point of view.

Read more at: Sharif-Manmohan: Two Punjabi PMs and one dehati aurat controversy : The Log, News - India Today

Perhaps Nawaz felt sorry to MMS and said those words against the Pak Army as a measure of remorse he felt that he put MMS through. Why would he say such a thing against the Pak Army.

Perhaps this was told in the press by MMS as a payback in kind. You disrespect me (this was at a time of the Rahul G nonsense, and got magnified more) ... i remind you who you truly are.