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Herald Exclusive: Common ground | The CSS Point Blog [Official] In a mid-summer address in 2011 at an event organised by his Pakistan Peoples Party, then president Asif Ali Zardari appeared to brim with indignation. He called Nawaz Sharif a maulvi, deriding Sharif’s softness towards the religious right and his links with military dictator Ziaul Haq, who embarked on the religionisation of state and society in Pakistan on a mass scale. In late 2012, Rahul Gandhi, then campaigning in Gujarat on behalf of his Indian National Congress, appeared similarly outraged. He called Narendra Modi, then chief minister of Gujarat, a “marketer”, scoffing at the development-at-all-costs model that Modi champions.
Posted on: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 11:30:43 +0000

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