Source: LUBP
On the eve of Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif’s visit to the White House last month, the New York Times published an op-ed piece, “An incomplete democracy”, by Michael Kugelman, a senior program associate for South Asia at the Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars. The entire Pakistani media blacked it out because the writer—-and through him the New York Times itself—-acknowledged what we at LUBP have been claiming for the past 5 years: That Nawaz Sharif’s PML-N (and now the PML-N government) is the political face of Takfiri Deobandis led by the banned terrorist outfit Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ, currently operating as Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat Deobandi ASWJ-D). Pakistanis must read the article as it also points out the sinister role played by the ISI-Army in the misery in which the people of Pakistan have been hurled. About the connections of the Nawaz League with the LeJ, the New York Times Michael Kugelman, “Mr. Sharif’s government, for instance, has called for dialogue with the fundamentally antidemocratic Pakistani Taliban. It also does little about the horrific plight of Pakistan’s religious minorities. In fact, Mr. Sharif’s political party has been associated with militant organizations like the Sunni extremist group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi.”
A fact sine long known.
A few of his ministers and top associates had connections with Ahraar (the worst type anti ahmadiyah, anti-Pakistan elements of Deobandis). A few can be named even today in top posts, and his last time president (rafique shib) was also fom ahraar.