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PESHAWAR: The Awami National Partys chief Asfandyar Wali Khan was offered the post of president but he turned it down, Khyber Pakhtunkhwas Information Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain said here on Wednesday, confirming a disclosure made in a US diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks.
Asfandyar Wali Khan received the offer to become the president but he declined, he said in reply to a question.
Our party didnt have the support required for the post and we could not accept the offer, he said.
The cable released by WikiLeaks said the offer had been made by army chief Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani.
The ANP believed that the post of the president should be held by the party having the required number of seats in parliament, the minister said.
However, he said, it was a matter of immense pride that a Pakhtun leader had been offered the job.He (Asfandyar) consulted the party and it was decided to decline the offer because it would have been inappropriate to hold a post to which it was not entitled constitutionally.
Mr Hussain also said that Afghanistan was about to witness a massive change.
The Afghan armed groups, including the Taliban, will part ways with Al Qaeda. The local militants will lay down arms after an internal agreement there, he said.
Eventually, he said, a national government would be set up in Afghanistan with representation of all parties.
JUI-F DENIAL: However, the JUI-F refuted a startling revelation made in another cable that its chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman had sought US help to become the prime minister during a meeting with the US ambassador Anne Patterson.
The maulana is on a visit to Cambodia as head of a Kashmir Committee delegation.
The information secretary of his party termed the disclosure a blatant lie and part of the US plan to tarnish the image of political personalities.
The JUI is an ideological party, Maulana Mohammad Amjad Khan said on phone from Lahore. We believe in parliamentary politics. We would never seek anybodys help, let alone that of the Americans, to enter the corridors of power through the backdoor, he said.
He said Maulana Fazl had neither held a secret meeting with the former American ambassador nor asked for her help to become the prime minister.
We dont do deals, he said.
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Kayani said he disliked Zardari: WikiLeaks
Updated at: 1405 PST, Wednesday, December 01, 2010
WASHINGTON: Pakistan's army chief COAS Kayani mused about forcing out civilian President Asif Ali Zardari who has made preparations for a coup or assassination, leaked US diplomatic cables said Tuesday.
The latest tranche of memos, obtained by whistleblower site WikiLeaks and reported by American and British newspapers, also showed that the United States was more concerned than it let on publicly about Pakistan's nuclear arsenal.
General Ashfaq Kayani, chief of Pakistan's powerful military, told the US ambassador during a March 2009 meeting that he "might, however reluctantly," pressure Zardari to resign, according to cable cited by the papers.
Kayani was quoted as saying that he might support Asfandyar Wali Khan, leader of the Awami National League Party, as the new president -- not Zardari's arch-nemesis Nawaz Sharif.
According to Anne W. Patterson, the then US Ambassador to Pakistan, Kayani made it clear that regardless of how much he disliked Zardari, he distrusted Nawaz even more.
In another cable quoted by both newspapers, US Vice President Joe Biden recounted to Britain's then prime minister Gordon Brown a conversation with Zardari last year.
Zardari told him that Kayani and the Inter-Services Intelligence agency "will take me out," according to the cable. The paper said the cables also showed that Zardari has made extensive preparations in case he is killed.
Tensions between Zardari and the army are no secret, and Pakistan often witnesses coup rumors.
After Kayani met in September with Zardari and Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, the now-exiled Musharraf quipped: "I can assure you they were not discussing the weather."
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I am very Confused
, can ThinkTanks please enlighten me.
PESHAWAR: The Awami National Partys chief Asfandyar Wali Khan was offered the post of president but he turned it down, Khyber Pakhtunkhwas Information Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain said here on Wednesday, confirming a disclosure made in a US diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks.
Asfandyar Wali Khan received the offer to become the president but he declined, he said in reply to a question.
Our party didnt have the support required for the post and we could not accept the offer, he said.
The cable released by WikiLeaks said the offer had been made by army chief Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani.
The ANP believed that the post of the president should be held by the party having the required number of seats in parliament, the minister said.
However, he said, it was a matter of immense pride that a Pakhtun leader had been offered the job.He (Asfandyar) consulted the party and it was decided to decline the offer because it would have been inappropriate to hold a post to which it was not entitled constitutionally.
Mr Hussain also said that Afghanistan was about to witness a massive change.
The Afghan armed groups, including the Taliban, will part ways with Al Qaeda. The local militants will lay down arms after an internal agreement there, he said.
Eventually, he said, a national government would be set up in Afghanistan with representation of all parties.
JUI-F DENIAL: However, the JUI-F refuted a startling revelation made in another cable that its chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman had sought US help to become the prime minister during a meeting with the US ambassador Anne Patterson.
The maulana is on a visit to Cambodia as head of a Kashmir Committee delegation.
The information secretary of his party termed the disclosure a blatant lie and part of the US plan to tarnish the image of political personalities.
The JUI is an ideological party, Maulana Mohammad Amjad Khan said on phone from Lahore. We believe in parliamentary politics. We would never seek anybodys help, let alone that of the Americans, to enter the corridors of power through the backdoor, he said.
He said Maulana Fazl had neither held a secret meeting with the former American ambassador nor asked for her help to become the prime minister.
We dont do deals, he said.
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Kayani said he disliked Zardari: WikiLeaks
Updated at: 1405 PST, Wednesday, December 01, 2010
WASHINGTON: Pakistan's army chief COAS Kayani mused about forcing out civilian President Asif Ali Zardari who has made preparations for a coup or assassination, leaked US diplomatic cables said Tuesday.
The latest tranche of memos, obtained by whistleblower site WikiLeaks and reported by American and British newspapers, also showed that the United States was more concerned than it let on publicly about Pakistan's nuclear arsenal.
General Ashfaq Kayani, chief of Pakistan's powerful military, told the US ambassador during a March 2009 meeting that he "might, however reluctantly," pressure Zardari to resign, according to cable cited by the papers.
Kayani was quoted as saying that he might support Asfandyar Wali Khan, leader of the Awami National League Party, as the new president -- not Zardari's arch-nemesis Nawaz Sharif.
According to Anne W. Patterson, the then US Ambassador to Pakistan, Kayani made it clear that regardless of how much he disliked Zardari, he distrusted Nawaz even more.
In another cable quoted by both newspapers, US Vice President Joe Biden recounted to Britain's then prime minister Gordon Brown a conversation with Zardari last year.
Zardari told him that Kayani and the Inter-Services Intelligence agency "will take me out," according to the cable. The paper said the cables also showed that Zardari has made extensive preparations in case he is killed.
Tensions between Zardari and the army are no secret, and Pakistan often witnesses coup rumors.
After Kayani met in September with Zardari and Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, the now-exiled Musharraf quipped: "I can assure you they were not discussing the weather."
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I am very Confused
, can ThinkTanks please enlighten me.
