Nawaz Sharif has, historically speaking, often gone against the very things he initially commits himself to. His actions and views, most of the time, are 180 degree opposite. For example, he attacked the judiciary with a whole horde of his workers during the 1990s but has now waxed eloquent for independence of judiciary in the present era. He suppressed the media with full force in his time and then became the flag-bearer of the freedom of press. He always said the economic managers of Musharraf had bankrupted the country while he had done so himself in 1999 when Pakistan defaulted on its debts. He has woven long spiels about the ills of dictatorship in his recent speeches but he had himself become the dictator supreme when he had passed the 15th amendment to be the 'Amir ul Momineen'. He condemned the PML-Q assembly for its actions, even though, his assembly of 1990s used to pass constitutional amendments in minutes. The latest volte face of Mr. Sharif is that despite having opposed the military action against extremists in FATA and Swat, he has now become the supporter of action against terrorists. Just goes to show that he has just one principle in politics---to do what suits him at the time. -IJAZ TABASSUM, Kaula Lumpur, December 2.