Former president and All Pakistan Muslim League (APML) Chairman General (r) Pervez Musharraf said Sunday that “Ali Baba and forty thieves” are now hiding under the umbrella of democracy to break all the records of “civilian dictatorship”.
Talking to APML leaders Dr Muhammad Amjad and Major General (r) Rashid Qureshi via telephone, Musharraf said that what the nation is witnessing now is democracy merely as presented by Pakistan Muslim League- Nawaz (PML-N) leader Nawaz Sharif and Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Co-Chairman Asif Zardari.
“Thousands of people coming to defend their rights have been locked in the federal capital by placing containers and the protesters including the women, elderly and children are deprived of food and water,” Musharraf lamented.
“The nation is now clearly seeing the actions of those who called me a dictator,” he said.
Musharraf claimed that real democracy flourished during his time when general and local bodies’ elections were conducted twice. He said the government that came into being during his tenure was the first in the country’s history to complete its term.
Musharraf advised the party activists to regularly provide clean drinking water and food to the participants of the ‘Inqilab’ march led by Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) Chairman Dr Tahirul Qadri.
Amjad and Qureshi conveyed the message of solidarity from Musharraf to Qadri.
Addressing the ‘Inqilab’ march, Dr Amjad said that it is unjust that after killing of innocent civilians in ModelTown on June 17, an FIR of the incident was not being registered despite court’s orders.
“The government is the real terrorist as it ordered fire on innocent civilians,” Qureshi alleged, while condemning the placement of containers in Islamabad.