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India-Pakistan
Bury the hatchet or bite the bullet: Get ready for revolution
2009-03-10
Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz chief Nawaz Sharif asked people during a rally in Jhelum on Monday to "get ready to make sacrifices for a revolution", urging them to "come out on the streets to change your destiny".

"This state of affairs in the country will change only through a revolution," he told a charged crowd, claiming his party would come into power "in a matter of a few days". "We cannot leave Pakistan at the mercy of Zardari," he said. "We know how to safeguard Pakistan."

Nawaz urged police personnel not to comply with government orders that they deemed against the law.

"The constitution, the law, the judiciary and Pakistan are not the fiefdom of [President Asif Ali] Zardari," he said. "If anyone tries to subject people to injustices, he should be ready to face the consequences," Nawaz warned.

"Fake courts have given a verdict against us," he said referring to his and his brother Shahbaz Sharif's disqualification. "If Zardari does not dislodge the courts, the people will dislodge them on their own," the opposition leader said in a fiery speech.

He said Pakistan was facing threats and "the responsibility to save it lies on our shoulders".
Posted by:Fred

#1  We should call this the 'Red Revolution' on account of the amount of blood that will flow if Sharif's followers take to the streets.
Posted by: phil_b   2009-03-10 00:28  

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