On April 30, 1999, Benazir Bhutto told the media that there was a definite role of Osama, Nawaz Sharif and 111 Brigade in toppling her first government in early 1990s. “Bin Laden financed an operation to topple me in cooperation with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and the Pakistani intelligence services,” she had stated in an interview with the London-based al-Hayat newspaper. “Ramzi Yussef (implicated in the 1993 New York World Trade Centre bombing) tried to assassinate me on two occasions in 1993 to facilitate Nawaz Sharif’s rise to power. Yussef admitted to Pakistani investigators before his extradition to the United States that that was his duty to assassinate me, only because I was a woman in charge of the government,” she had added.
In another interview with Herald magazine on January 11, 2001, “Osama paid $10 million to overthrow my government during my first term. A serving Corps Commander held several meetings with PML(N) Chief Nawaz Sharif and bin Laden to chalk out the plan to topple my government. Osama was told that a woman in the prime minister’s position in an Islamic country was against Islam (Osama’s Islam) and so he should give them money to overthrow her. Nawaz Sharif told bin Laden he would bring Islam (Osama’s Islam) to Pakistan.”
In year 2006, former head of Jamat-e-Islami Qazi Hussain, endorsed BB’s statements. He claimed that he himself was an eyewitness of these developments. Afterwards, former ISI official, Khalid Khawaja revealed that being a close friend of Osama bin Laden, he had arranged meetings of Nawaz Sharif with Osama for toppling BB’s democratic governments.
And, now, Mehrangate revelations have exposed the devils of the state. In his interview to an anchor of a private news channel, owner of Mehran Bank Younis Habib has restarted a new debate on devils of the state. Those politicians and public office bearers, who committed such flagitious and heinous crimes against Pakistan have been uncovered. Articles 6, 62 and 63 have been violated. It is beyond any shadow of doubt that sovereignty of the state was compromised by activities of these devils of state.
This is the biggest blunder of country’s history after the fall of Dhaka. No one is above the law. Those who are involved in this scandal should be punished according to the laws of state and all these devils must be disqualified from politics for lifetime, so that our country’s politics is kept clean.
DR SAIFUR REHMAN
Islamabad
