ISLAMABAD: PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif and senior leader Nisar Ali Khan repeatedly told former US ambassador Anne Patterson that the party was pro-American.
In a cable released by WikiLeaks that sent on February 1, 2008, Patterson writes, “Nawaz recounted his decision to override his chief of army staff and deploy Pakistani troops to Saudi Arabia in support of the US coalition in the first Gulf War.”
Meanwhile, Nisar noted that the PPP and its leaders were organising street demonstrations against Pakistan joining the US coalition, she wrote. She added, “Now, Nawaz said, he was hurt that the US did not remember.
Nawaz said he understood that 9/11 had changed things, but urged that the US apply some balance to the relationship.”
