Conservative Nawaz Sharif is a man with a past. The Pakistani English newspaper, the Daily Times wrote on June 23, 2005 that the former ISI official Khalid Khawaja confessed that he arranged five meetings between Nawaz Sharif and al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden.
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By Ehsan Azari Stanizai | June 20, 2013
Is Pakistan's incoming PM, Nawaz Sharif, the pivot on which Pakistan's freedom from religious terror and his country's military revolves?
Nawaz Sharif is returning to power for the third time in fourteen years as his Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has emerged as the winner on May 11th general elections. The rising question within his country and abroad is whether he would be able to pull out his troubled country from the quagmire of home-grown Islamic terrorism and sectarian violence?
For many political observers, the spreading religious militancy in Pakistan is a direct by-product of misrule by the country's powerful military and its intelligence agency (ISI), which has controlled all important state and government policies for at least half of Pakistan's 66-year history. The problem of religious extremism would never go away unless the new prime minister encounters the military and by consequence put a curb on the terrorists with transnational agendas. This is a daunting task that all Pakistan civilian leaders, including Mr. Nawaz Sharif failed to achieve any success in the past.
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