All Pakistan Muslim League (APML) chief and former president Pervez Musharraf said on Tuesday that the people of Pakistan wanted the formation of a grand alliance to rid the country of the monopoly of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N).
Addressing APML workers at a meeting in Philadelphia on Tuesday, Musharraf said the people of Pakistan were desperately in need of an alternative system as both the PPP and the PML-N, despite repeated chances, had done nothing for them. He said the people wanted an end to the “ping-pong” of these leading political parties. Musharraf said political parties that had sympathy for the country and its people should come forward to form a grand alliance to provide a genuine and capable leadership.
Musharraf pointed out that whenever personal interests of the PML-N leadership were threatened, it forgot about morality and political values. He said in 2006, the PPP and PML-N had signed the “Charter of Democracy” and back then the PML-N was not even ready to recognise the MQM as a political party, claiming that any sort of negotiations would not be initiated with the MQM, but now it was determined to add the MQM to its alliance.
He said the PML-N was used to prioritising its interests and to gain advantages, and it had remained committed to altering positions.
