Tag: Musharraf

LONDON - Former president Pervez Musharraf has said that he is not responsible for the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto and former Balochistan governor Akbar Bugti, and cleared his position that he will not appear before any inquiry commission in this regard.
In an interview with a private TV channel, the former president said that it was not his responsibility to provide security to the late Pakistan People's Party chairperson. "I was head of the state, and

ISLAMABAD - Various political leaders questioned the fund-raising by former President Pervez Musharraf in the name of flood victims and alleged the retired general had failed to disburse the amount transparently among the calamity-hit people.
In September 2010, former president Pervez Musharf raised Rs 250 million during a four-hour live telethon on a private TV channel to raise funds for the flood victims from the platform of Musharraf Foundation.
The All Pakistan Muslim

DUBAI: Youth intervention can change the political culture in Pakistan, former president Pervez Musharraf said while addressing a gathering in Abu Dhabi, announcing that he will soon introduce a new party setup at provincial level, followed by city and town councils to garner support for the coming elections.
The gathering was organized by UAE-based Pakistani businessmen including Abdul Salam, Khurrum Anis and Dr Syed Qaiser Anis, the former president of the UAE Pakistan

DUBAI: Former president Pervez Musharraf said on Saturday the Chaudhrys were never against him, saying they had deviated off-course under political expediencies, but would be reverting back to his fold at an "opportune moment".
He also denied that Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl chief Fazlur Rehman was against him, saying Fazl was in constant touch with him.
Talking to a private TV channel, Musharraf stressed it was the Chaudhrys who "pressurised him" to quash cases against

LAHORE: Former president Pervez Musharraf has warned that the army might have to intervene again in politics, if the country continues to decline.
Speaking exclusively to Sky News from his new home in the UAE, Musharraf said "Pakistan may be forced to take matters into their own hands - which could include working with the Taliban - if it continues to feel alienated by the rest of the world". "There is no bar against me going back to Pakistan. But the conditions have to be

ISLAMABAD: India wants to resume talks with Pakistan on Kashmir from where former president Pervez Musharraf left and to carry forward almost "80 percent progress" made then towards the settlement of core issue, a source told Pakistan Today on Sunday.
"Pakistan and India were able to resolve '80 percent' of the Kashmir dispute during the year-long talks between the Musharraf regime and the Indian government, mostly through back channel diplomacy," said a senior Pakistani

LAHORE: Former prime minister and PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif has said that Pakistan would have been one of the "Asian Tigers" had his government not been toppled by Gen (r) Pervez Musharraf.
"My government was busy in building infrastructure and roads and launching other mega projects with the help of good governance," Nawaz said in an interview with a US-based TV channel, MHz Networks.
He said his government had been working through various channels to establish good

LAHORE: The Pakistan People's Party (PPP) considered former president General (r) Pervez Musharraf as former prime minister Benazir Bhutto's killer and he would soon be brought to justice in accordance with the UN report on Benazir's assassination, PPP Secretary General Senator Jahangir Badar said on Saturday.
He made these remarks while talking to journalists at Benazir's pictorial exhibition at the Alhamra Art Gallery. Badar said that the PPP-led federal government would bring

NEW DELHI: "I don't plan to come to India ever again," former president Pervez Musharraf said on Friday after the Indian government denied him a visa. Musharraf said he did not "believe it was because New Delhi believed he was the main person behind Kargil".
He also asks why was he reassured time and again that he would get a visa before the denial came. "I have no words to explain my disappointment," Musharraf told The Indian Express over telephone from his home in Dubai. "I

ISLAMABAD: WikiLeakes claims that former president General (r) Pervez Musharraf had told US Senator John McCain and Representative Richard Renzi that he had no direct evidence but thought Al Qaeda leaders Osama Bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri were hiding in Bajaur Agency.
The US diplomatic cable sent by Charge d'Affair's Peter Bodde on April 10, 2007, quoted Musharraf as saying that the landscape in the videos of Bin Laden and Zawahiri looked similar to Bajaur and the area

ISLAMABAD: The government of Saudi Arabia had fully supported former president Pervez Musharraf's rule, although it also offered protection to the Sharif family.
According to WikiLeaks, authorities in Saudi Arabia backed Musharraf's rule and also worked with the former army general to have PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif arrested if he returned from exile.
"We can either support Musharraf and stability, or we can allow bin Laden to get the bomb," Saudi Ambassador to the US Adel

LAHORE: In another disclosure, WikiLeaks has quoted the head of the French Interagency on Afghanistan-Pakistan cell, Jasmine Zerinini, as saying that Pakistan's Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Kayani has learnt his lesson from former president Pervez Musharraf and is staying behind the scenes in Pakistan.
Zernini also told a US diplomat that General Kayani was manipulating the government and parliament into preventing change on Pakistan's policy in the tribal belt. She added

ISLAMABAD: Former president Pervez Musharraf said on Friday former ISI head Hamid Gul was against former prime minister Benazir Bhutto and he might have been involved in her assassination plot.
In an interview with a private channel, Musharraf said in a letter written to him by Benazir, she suspected that she had a life threat from Pervaiz Elahi, Ijaz Shah and Hamid Gul.
"I don't suspect Ijaz Shah and Pervaiz Elahi to be involved such a crime as they are respectable people.

ISLAMABAD: Usman Aminuddin, former petroleum minister, has revealed that ex-president Pervez Musharraf and ex-premier Shaukat Aziz had forced him not to resist British Petroleum deal for buying Occidental Petroleum's shares in Badin field.
While commenting on the petition filed in the Supreme Court of Pakistan by Jamaat-e-Islami former chief Qazi Hussain Ahmed, he said Occidental Petroleum's shares in Badin Gas Field were being sold at a throwaway price in 2002. However, he did

ISLAMABAD: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) team probing the Benazir Buhtto murder case has included former president Pervez Musharraf in the investigation and sent him a 32-point questionnaire on several key issues.
Referring to a letter written to Musharraf by Benazir Bhutto in which she informed him about threats to her life, the investigation team has asked the former military ruler why foolproof security was not provided by his regime to Benazir even after the Taliban

TORONTO: Pakistan may not hand over Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden immediately to the US if he was caught on Pakistani soil, former president Pervez Musharraf said, asserting that the "matter is sensitive" and Islamabad would have to "think about it when such a situation arises".
Musharraf, who is attending a convention organised by his All-Pakistan Muslim League, was asked the question the question by the CBC network. "Well, that is a very, uh, difficult question to answer. It

TORONTO: After a bunch of people raised slogans against him the other day, former president Pervez Musharraf said he would have asked his party workers to 'beat up' the demonstrators had he not been afraid of Canada's law. Musharraf made these comments while addressing a convention of his party, the All Pakistan Muslim League (APML), in Toronto.
According to media reports, he claimed that Osama bin Laden had provided the funds that allowed Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz chief