Musharraf rejects Nawaz allegation in connection with Kargil episode

[SSGPA1]

ISLAMABAD: former President Gen (r) Pervez Musharraf has strongly rejected the allegation leveled on him by Mian Nawaz Sharif in connection with Kargil episode.
In an exclusive interview with private TV Channel, Pervez Musharraf reiterated his resolve that he was confident at what had he done during his eight-year rule, as all his measures and step for the greater national interests.

Pervez Musharraf said that if any case was lodged against him in connection with Akbar Bugti killing, military cop on Nawaz led government or challenging 3rd November act then he is ready to face it. “However, it would be premature to say thing in this connection, “ he added. He said that he had neither sent Nawaz Sharif to US nor he had given him the advice to withdraw forces from Kargil.

While responding to a question regarding Pak-India dialogues he said that he was still abiding by his stance that he will not comprise on principles. Musharraf said that it is totally wrong impression that army was hurdle in the solution of Kashmir issue, which according to his claim was about to solve and every thing was finalized. He said that a joint Communiqué was also ready but unfortunately, Indian parliament had not approved it. He said that they had convinced the entire leadership in Kashmir except Ali Gilani about the four-point formula.

He said that all three parties “Pakistan-India-Kashmir” must have a cohesive, joint consensus for a durable and lasting solution of the core issue of Kashmir, adding that the people of Pakistan, India and Kashmir would have to give and take something for the lingering issue of Kashmir. While terming referendum against Chief Justice a constitutional step he confessed that he had committed some mistake to find amicable solution of the issue. Musharraf said that there may have been some rigging in 18th February 2008 election on behalf of Election Commission of Pakistan but it would be better to forget these outdated things and embrace election results.

Similarly, while talking about the increasing terrorism after 18th February and ongoing military operation in Swat Musharraf said that army had restricted Fazlullah and his comrades to the Shangla mountains during his era and removed Sufi Mohammad from the scene but after the election the ruling government released Sufi Muhammad and Fazlullah once again started its campaign against the government by setting up his FM Radio. He said that if government continue to work upon the polices of previous government then this situation would definitely be different.

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[SSGPA1]

Now this is courage and this is why people admire Gen. Musharraf!

NS and others can only give threats but they know that there is no evidence of wrong doing against Gen. Musharraf.

NS has been in Pakistan for a while now but he has yet to file any complain against Musharraf. What is stopping him???

Same with Zardari, who can't even manage his own party!

 

[batmannow]

yes, these thugs werent able to find anything , which can help them to attack.... gen musharaf, but GEN. MUSHARAF had to be blamed for letting these thugs comming back in pakistan!
all the things he had, done in his rule was indeed in the greater intersts of pakistan but, NRO wasnt?

 

[Machoman]

I would kick those bastards back to middle east

 

[inayatali]

Nawaz Sharif is timmed person he saved his life before a dictator and run away from Homeland, he is only the cheater to his motherland, patriotic person was Zulifqar Bhutto who sacrificed his life for motherland even general Musharaf didnt left nation till now heis brave man. Showed the atittude of true Army person.

 

[RabzonKhan]

Brass of a very special kind

By Kamran Shafi
Tuesday, 30 Jun, 2009

THIS past week the Commando, and his sidekick the Private Banker, or shall we say Tweedledum and Tweedledee, were interviewed by a private TV channel in London, where they live in the lap of luxury after shoving the country into the pit it is in. By gad, do they have brass, the both of them!

The most interesting part of the Commando’s interview was the Kargil misadventure. As usual, he stood the matter on its head and, again as usual, fibbed away to glory with panache, and flair that only the very brazen have, and asserted that he never advised Nawaz Sharif that we should withdraw from Kargil.

On the July 3, 1999, the Commando tells us, he briefed the defence committee of the cabinet on the ‘military aspects’ of Kargil. He says he told the DCC that of the five ‘places’ (whatever the term means), the Indians had only taken one back; had taken two or three posts in one, and that three were completely ‘untouched’ because they did not even know we were there — ‘un ko pataa hee nahin tha’.

He also ‘analysed a limited war with India in Kashmir’, whatever that means, as also the air and naval aspects of a ‘total war’ with India. According to himself, he told Nawaz Sharif and 15 others present there, including the air and navy chiefs, that ‘we were militarily alright’ and that the Indians were on a ‘very, very weak wicket’. They were ‘weak’ said the Commando because they had ‘moved all their forces to Kargil as also all their artillery’. ALL their forces; ALL their artillery?! Little wonder that we got ourselves in the sort of trouble that we did under his able command, what?

Throughout the briefing, says the Commando, Nawaz Sharif kept asking him if we should withdraw from Kargil to which he replied that he had given his ‘military assessment’ and that it was now for the prime minister to take the ‘political decision’.

Then he goes into the details of how, a day later, he was called back from a weekend in Murree with his family — this weekend at a time that our poorly equipped and poorly fed soldiers were dying in Kargil please note — to meet Nawaz Sharif at the Islamabad airport where the PM told him he was off to Washington, and asked him yet again if we should withdraw from Kargil. To which he answered as theretofore.

Of course, the Commando conveniently forgot to tell us poor Pakistanis who were witness to the Kargil disaster these many years ago, and who were now listening agog to this nonsense, that his tight buddy Marine Gen Anthony Zinni, then commander US Central Command, had visited Pakistan in the third week of June and had met him first and then the PM.

In Gen Zinni’s own words in his book Battle Ready (GP Putnam’s Sons): ‘I was … directed by the administration to head a presidential mission to Pakistan to convince Prime Minister Sharif and General Musharraf to withdraw their forces from Kargil. I met with the Pakistani leaders in Islamabad on June 24 and 25 and put forth a simple rationale for withdrawing: ‘If you don’t pull back, you’re going to bring war and nuclear annihilation down on your country. That’s going to be very bad news for everybody’.

‘Nobody actually quarreled with this rationale. The problem for the Pakistani leadership was the apparent national loss of face. Backing down and pulling back to the Line of Control looked like political suicide. We needed to come up with a face-saving way out of this mess. What we were able to offer was a meeting with President Clinton, which would end the isolation that had long been the state of affairs between our two countries, but we would announce the meeting only after a withdrawal of forces. That got Musharraf’s attention and he encouraged Prime Minister Sharif to hear me out.

‘Sharif was reluctant to withdraw before the meeting with Clinton was announced (again, his problem was maintaining face); but after I insisted, he finally came around and he ordered the withdrawal. We set up a meeting with Clinton in July.’

Again, exactly a year later (June 20, 2000) this is what Gen Zinni said in Abu Dhabi: ‘I talked to Mr Sharif and the chief of staff and convinced them to take steps to ease tensions and to withdraw from Kargil. They agreed. There was no interest I found in the Pakistanis to see the situation escalate beyond control from either side and they cooperated, making the decision on their own,’ he said.

If this doesn’t prove beyond a shadow of doubt that the Commando played fast and free with his office and the authority flowing from it then nothing will; from first starting Kargil, and then lying about how well we were doing. Nor was this the only misstatement of facts indulged in by him during the interview which the interviewer should have pointed out. In the matter of the mayhem in Swat, and the delayed action of the security establishment, he has tried to put the main blame on the elected government that was nowhere on the scene when he and his cohorts were making a mess of things.

Whilst what he said on Swat was mostly nonsense, the matter of the FM radio station really took the cake. He puts the time of its setting up after the 2008 elections. Nothing could be further from the truth for the FM station was set up by Fazlullah (aka Mullah Radio) in the beginning of 2006 when the Commando was still master of all he surveyed.

As for Tweedledee, suffice it to say that all it took to expose him was the wheat export scandal, when his government first exported wheat and then, within a few months, imported the staple food at many times the price of our exported wheat! As if that was not enough, he too indulged in fantasy when he said his government added 3,000MW to the national grid. Wrong! Not one electricity-producing plant was set up in the eight years that the Private Banker was finance/prime minister. Two thousand, eight hundred megawatts were added, but only as part of the existing IPPs’ own expansion programmes.

There is only one way out of the clutches of the establishment and its ‘agencies’ (and their boys) which are the prime reason of our travails. And that is the coming together of all the political forces, the trashing of the dictatorial parts of the 17th Amendment, and complete command and control of the security establishment by elected leaders. Are you listening, President Asif Ali Zardari?

 

[BATMAN]

yes, these thugs werent able to find anything , which can help them to attack.... gen musharaf, but GEN. MUSHARAF had to be blamed for letting these thugs comming back in pakistan!
all the things he had, done in his rule was indeed in the greater intersts of pakistan but, NRO wasnt?

Upholding NRO by CJ (scum of the earth) means endorsing the Musharraf.
Media and previous US administration is to be blamed for forcing Musharaf to bring those thugs back.
US pressure even forced Switzerland etc. to compromise its legal system.

 

[qsaark]

Upholding NRO by CJ (scum of the earth) means endorsing the Musharraf.
Media and previous US administration is to be blamed for forcing Musharaf to bring those thugs back.
US pressure even forced Switzerland etc. to compromise its legal system.

I can't stop laughing. Blame game never ends does it? Until now it was CJ, now from CJ, the scum of the earth to the USA. Everybody is wrong only we are perfect! We are angels, who says we made any mistake? Forget about who drafted and shoved the NRO down the throat of the nation; it is the CJP who is responsible. Musharraf? No no, it was not him….. it was media, are you listening……. it was media and that evil we call USA, yes, they are responsible. How stupid these people are who blame Musharraf. No, we must not call him just like that, he must be called His Highness, the General Perwaiz Musharraf………….ummm something is still missing??? Aaaa, Razi Allah……..or maybe Rahmat ul lillah………..lets hold a contest……..our kids are bright, they can surely come up with a title or a series of titles that could actually cover the divine personality of the General.

 

[dherky]

I watched the whole interview of Musharraf and anyone who was watching it can tell, he was tell the truth about all matters.

Now, the write of this above article "Mr Kamran Shafi" was and is active sympathizer of ppp. After reading this article, i was really pissed off him becuase i new he is bullsh... as i watched the interview of musharraf. so i sent him an email this afternoon to explain how i feel about his article of lies and still waiting for his reply

Musharraf is a great leader and i really miss him

 

[Rafael]

I can't stop laughing. Blame game never ends does it? Until now it was CJ, now from CJ, the scum of the earth to the USA. Everybody is wrong only we are perfect! We are angels, who says we made any mistake? Forget about who drafted and shoved the NRO down the throat of the nation; it is the CJP who is responsible. Musharraf? No no, it was not him….. it was media, are you listening……. it was media and that evil we call USA, yes, they are responsible. How stupid these people are who blame Musharraf. No, we must not call him just like that, he must be called His Highness, the General Perwaiz Musharraf………….ummm something is still missing??? Aaaa, Razi Allah……..or maybe Rahmat ul lillah………..lets hold a contest……..our kids are bright, they can surely come up with a title or a series of titles that could actually cover the divine personality of the General.

They'll blame every body, from illiterate masses to traitor and sold out media, Jealous Ex Army Generals (His colleagues), "Scum of the earth" the Cheif Justice and Hopeless politicians.

But Musharaff? Hell No! How can an army general be corrupt and responsible for our current situation? After all he was an Army general!

 

[BATMAN]

President asked to refrain from giving statements on NRO

Saturday, June 27, 2009
By By Sohail Khan

ISLAMABAD: Former vice-president Supreme Court Bar Association and senior lawyer of the apex court Muhammad Ikram Chaudhry on Thursday asked President Asif Ali Zardari to abstain from issuing statements on the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO), as the issue was pending before the apex court.

Responding to the statement issued by the president that the NRO had no importance as various cases were pending for years in the apex court, Chaudhry said if the NRO had no status, then why former president Pervez Musharraf, Benazir Bhutto, US, Islamic countries as well as secret agencies played their role in striking a deal in this regard. “As the case of the NRO is pending before the court, President Zardari should refrain from giving statements in this regard,” Ikram Chaudhry said. Otherwise, he added, it would be tantamount to interfering in the court affairs and would also be considered a hurdle in the way of independence of the judiciary.

He said Zardari, along with other politicians, while taking the support of the NRO, succeeded in getting corruption cases decided in their favour from the court of former chief justice Abdul Hameed Dogar. He, however, said the nation was looking forward to the restored independent judiciary for cleansing corruption from the society.

It is pertinent to mention here that the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO), 2007, has been challenged in the Supreme Court for being ultra vires of the Constitution. Roedad Khan and Dr Aslam Khaki challenged the NRO, which is pending in the apex court.

They contended that the National Reconciliation Ordinance, 2007, was mala fide without jurisdiction and ultra vires of the law and the Constitution, and adversely affected the public at large.

The petitioners said the NRO, which was enforced on October 5, 2007, was an instrument to give benefits to the ruling coterie and certain individuals, by-passing the established judicial norms and to avoid penalisation of the so-called leaders of certain parties and others for illegalities, frauds and defaults committed by them on the national exchequer.

 

[SSGPA1]

Responding to the statement issued by the president that the NRO had no importance as various cases were pending for years in the apex court, Chaudhry said if the NRO had no status, then why former president Pervez Musharraf, Benazir Bhutto, US, Islamic countries as well as secret agencies played their role in striking a deal in this regard. “As the case of the NRO is pending before the court, President Zardari should refrain from giving statements in this regard,” Ikram Chaudhry said. Otherwise, he added, it would be tantamount to interfering in the court affairs and would also be considered a hurdle in the way of independence of the judiciary.

Ikram Chaudhry can enjoy cheap publicity!!

This gentleman is a lawyer and he should know that NRO is an ordinance and an ordinance has a very short life. I am pretty sure that this Ordinance has already expired and any action by SCoP will be like opening a Pandora's Box.

People point to Zardari whenever NRO is mentioned but conviently forget that MQM benefitted the most. Now that Nawaz Sharif has benefitted from Judicial NRO (most decisions reversed), there is no way that cases under NRO will ever open again.

 

[BATMAN]

Now that Nawaz Sharif has benefitted from Judicial NRO (most decisions reversed), there is no way that cases under NRO will ever open again.

It seems it is in best interest of both parties incl. Iftikhar ch. and lawyers of Pakistan, not to discuss NRO issued by Musharraf.

 

[forcetrip]

I can't stop laughing. Blame game never ends does it? Until now it was CJ, now from CJ, the scum of the earth to the USA. Everybody is wrong only we are perfect! We are angels, who says we made any mistake? Forget about who drafted and shoved the NRO down the throat of the nation; it is the CJP who is responsible. Musharraf? No no, it was not him….. it was media, are you listening……. it was media and that evil we call USA, yes, they are responsible. How stupid these people are who blame Musharraf. No, we must not call him just like that, he must be called His Highness, the General Perwaiz Musharraf………….ummm something is still missing??? Aaaa, Razi Allah……..or maybe Rahmat ul lillah………..lets hold a contest……..our kids are bright, they can surely come up with a title or a series of titles that could actually cover the divine personality of the General.

Unfortunately it is because of people like you we are beggars and losers .. If only I could show you the before and after pictures of this country when he was in power and when he wasnt.

 

[Rafael]

Unfortunately it is because of people like you we are beggars and losers .. If I could show you the before and after pictures of this country when he was in power and when he wasnt.

Yeah Sure!