Well done President Musharraf

[Neo]

Sunday, December 10, 2006

WP Act will never be changed, undone: We are ready for bluffers: Musharraf

By Ali Waqar

LAHORE: President General Pervez Musharraf has said that the Women’s Protection Act will not be changed or undone.

“Whatever has been passed is passed and can’t be undone,” Gen Musharraf said on Saturday in an address at the concluding session of an international conference, titled ‘The Other self: Conflict, Confusion or Compromise’, and arranged by the National Commission on the Status of Women and the United Nations Development Programme.

Gen Musharraf said the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal’s threat to resign from parliament if the legislation were passed was a bluff. “Let us see who resigns from the parliament, we are ready to deal with the situation,” he added.

He said passing the Women’s Protection Bill was a serious challenge. “The Hudood Ordinance is not only a religious issue but also political and administrative,” he said. “People would have come on the roads if this bill had not been dealt with properly,” he added.

The president said the Hudood Ordinance was not one ordinance about women issues but also four other laws, which were not touched. The government had not touched the Hudood law banning alcohol.

Gen Musharraf reiterated that the legislation was in compliance with Islamic injunctions. “Our country is the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ... and no law can be passed against the Quran and Sunnah in this country,” he said. He said every Islamic school of thought or cleric had their own interpretation and the difficulty was determining which interpretation was correct. “And many have been opposing this bill just because they are opposing me or they have vested interests,” he said.

He said the Council of Islamic Ideology was the only recognised body with the authority to determine whether laws were Islamic or un-Islamic, and the council had cleared the Women’s Protection Act.

Gen Musharraf said Pakistan was unfairly singled out as a country where women were treated poorly, saying these issues existed worldwide. He said the Mukhtar Mai and Dr Shazia Khaild cases had defamed Pakistan, despite the fact he had done all he could to help them out.

Online adds: Gen Musharraf announced on Saturday that he would remain in uniform, and reiterated that the next general election would be held in 2007.

“I am always uniformed and will remain uniformed tomorrow,” Gen Musharraf said while talking to journalists after the conference. Talking about discrimination against women, the president said that women’s trafficking, vani and forced marriages were some of the issues which needed immediate attention.

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2006\12\10\story_10-12-2006_pg1_1

 

[Lahori paa jee]

Thanks to Mush for calling the bluff of these fake maulvi's again and again. For a long time they have been fooling Pakistani's.

How can they be against Mush when MMA is sitting in coalition with PML-Q in Baluchistan.

 

[sword9]

Now how is Musharraf any different from Benazir's husband or Nawaz Sharif? This is blatent nepotism, that the city of Karachi may have bear. Lack of accountability will chew up most of the funds.

Musharraf’s sop for son's in-laws?

LAHORE: Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf continues to misuse his official authority to shower monetary favours on his near and dear ones, especially the father-in-law of his elder son Bilal Musharraf, be it the award of a multi-million high-speed train contract for Karachi or a multi-billion Rawalpindi-Peshawar Motorway project.

In a latest case showing the misuse of official authority, Musharraf has approved the World's first Magnetic Levitation Commercial train project for Karachi and the contract has been awarded not because Musharraf wants Karachi to become modern or overcome its public transport problems but because Brig (Retd) Aftab Siddiqi, the father-in-law of Bilal Musharraf, wanted the US$298 million Maglev contract and got it. The beauty of the deal is that by building the golden three miles of super fast Maglev Track, Musharraf's relative would pocket almost 300 million dollars. At the same time, the Brigadier will get as part of the overall package colossal benefits. The Maglev Project given to him is not on Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) basis but on Ownership basis. — Amir Mir