Pak real victim of Bush's war

October 10, 2011 10:56

While on Pakistan, read MK Bhadrakumar's blog. Here's an extract.

Reading Peter Treston in The Guardian took me back to the early 1990s when while living and working as an Indian diplomat in Islamabad one saw the then prime minister Nawaz Sharif liberating his country's entrepreneurial skills and latent talents through an ambitious reform programme and Pakistan's economy surging. (In 1991, India had foreign exchange reserves sufficient for meeting import needs for 6 weeks and had pawned its bullion in London to raise money to add to the IMF loan, just to stay afloat.

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