Former president Pervez Musharraf on Friday rejected “with thanks” an offer made by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to bring back his ailing mother.
Musharraf’s spokeswoman said that the offer was yet another bid to fool the people. Aged 96, Musharraf’s mother is ill for some time and is being treated in Dubai.
Talking to Pakistan Today, Aasia Ishaque, Musharraf’s spokeswoman, confirmed that the mother of former president Musharraf was ill, but the former president was not planning to bring her back.
“She is not well and due to her age, she is seriously ill,” she said, adding that the former president had rejected the prime minister’s offer “with thanks”, adding that if Musharraf had to bring his mother back, he would better use his own resources rather than misusing the public money.
“The government and the Nawaz family is in a habit of misusing the public money, but if General Musharraf needed to bring back his mother, he will rather use his own resources to doing so rather than using the exchequer,” she maintained.
She added that first the PML-N government got involved in rumour-mongering alleging that General Musharraf wanted to flee the country in excuse of seeing his ailing mother.
“Pervez Musharraf is a brave man. He has fought many wars and protected and served the people of Pakistan. He did not want to fly out of the country and is ready to defend himself while remaining in Pakistan against all the fabricated court cases lodged against him,” she asserted.
She said that General Musharraf had also rejected the government’s offers of going into a forced exile made to him in the recent and he would also thwart all such offers in future.
Earlier, Information Minister Pervaiz Rashid had said, Nawaz Sharif on sympathetic grounds was ready to send special plane or an air ambulance to bring Musharraf’s mother back home.
He added that the judiciary would decide about the fate of General (r) Pervez Musharraf. “[However], the prime minister of Pakistan on sympathetic grounds is ready to send special plane or an air ambulance to bring his mother back home so as to continue her medical treatment in Pakistan and she could be with her son,” the spokesman said in a statement.
He also said the government would provide all facilities for the treatment of Musharraf’s mother.
Musharraf says ‘thanks, but no thanks’ to Nawaz
