Nawaz Sharif seems to have learnt no lessons

Superseding six serving officers, Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto who never tired of boasting how he had got the better of Indira Gandhi in Simla, had appointed the obsequious General Zia-ul Haq as Pakistan’s Army chief. Describing this appointment as her husband’s greatest mistake, Begum Nusrat Bhutto told me in 1982 that he had been carried away by Gen Zia’s professions of eternal loyalty.

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