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Musharraf ‘shedding crocodile tears’, says ex- Pak SCBA chief

September 19, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Islamabad, Sep.19 (ANI): Pakistan Supreme Court Bar Association’s former President Aitzaz Ahsan has said that former President General Pervez Musharraf is ‘shedding crocodile tears’ while admitting that removing Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry from office in 2007 was a mistake.

Referring to Musharraf’s speech at Trinity University in Saint Antonio, Texas, where the former general admitted that he had committed a mistake while sacking the then Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) from office, Ahsan said Musharraf had committed not only one but two mistakes by removing the higher judiciary and imposing an emergency in the country on November 3, 2007.

Talking to a private television channel, Ahsan said the government and the ‘independent’ judiciary should play their role in trying Musharraf under high treason charges.

He said it was not the right time for lawyers to take their struggle to roads, as they did previously while demanding restoration of the judiciary, The News reports.

Meanwhile, the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) has denied that Musharraf had taken the cabinet into his confidence before promulgating the Provisional Constitutional Ordinance (PCO) and imposing the emergency rule in 2007.

Interacting with media persons during an Iftaar party hosted by PML-Q President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, several party leaders rejected the notion regarding Musharraf consulting the cabinet before taking the illegal and extra-judicial actions. (ANI)

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‘Musharraf to participate in Pak politics after November 30′

September 7, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Islamabad, Sep 7 (ANI): Former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf would actively participate in politics after November 30 when a two-year constitutional bar on him holding public office comes to an end, according to a former minister.

Addressing reporters in Islamabad, former federal minister and central leader of the PML-Q, Chaudhry Shahbaz, said on Sunday that he held several meetings with the former president in London and also met him recently in Jeddah.

“Musharraf would unite various factions of the PML-Q and participate in politics from that platform,” said Shahbaz who served as Minister for Population Welfare in the Musharraf regime.

He said the two-year constitutional restriction, which prevents Musharraf from participating in politics, would end on November 30, after which he would announce his future strategy, the Daily Times reported.

Shahbaz termed Musharraf a “visionary leader whose services are required by the nation.

“After Benazir Bhutto, we have no leader … who can deliver lectures in 17 countries. Musharraf is recognised all over the world,” he said.

Replying to a question, he said he was part of the Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain-led faction of the PML-Q.

Asked about differences between Musharraf and the Chaudhry brothers, he said, “Sometimes, even brothers can develop differences. But these differences can be settled.”

Asked if any mutual friends were trying to resolve differences between the two sides, he said an effort could be launched.

“It would not be an uphill task,” he said. He said a trial for the former president could open a Pandora’s box. (ANI)

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PML-Q supports Jamil Bugti’s decision to register case against Musharraf

September 1, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Quetta, Aug. 31 (ANI): PML-Q chief Chaudhry Shujaat Husain has said that his party supports Jamil Bugti’s decision to register a case against former president Pervez Musharraf and prime minister Shaukat Aziz for conspiring his father Akbar Bugti’s assassination.

The Daily Times quoted Husain as saying that a fair trial would be conducted against the killers of the Baloch nationalist leader. He added that the PML-Q would not apologise to the Baloch people for the actions his party took while in power.

“The PML-Q made all efforts to negotiate with Akbar Bugti to resolve outstanding issues.

“We had won the confidence of Akbar Bugti to such an extent that he even agreed to nominate Mushahid Hussain as his representative in further dialogue,” Husain said.

The PML-Q chief also urged Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani to visit Balochistan to see the plight of Baloch people, and address their grievances.

“The government and all stakeholders will have to work collectively to resolve Balochistan’s issues,” he said. (ANI)

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Was Nawaz Sharif against conducting nuclear tests in 1998?

August 30, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Lahore, Aug.30 (ANI): Former Pakistan Foreign Minister Gohar Ayub Khan has said that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was not in favour of conducting nuclear tests in 1998, but was ‘outlawed’ by his cabinet and forced to accept its decision regarding going ahead with the tests.

In an interview with a private television channel, Khan claimed that some ministers of Sharif’s cabinet also supported his views of not conducting the nuclear tests at that time.

He said that ministers like Mushahid Hussain, Nisar Ali Khan, Sartaj Aziz and Abida Hussain, during a cabinet meeting, had opposed the nuke tests which were held on May 28, 1998.

“Mushahid changed his mind and did not support the nuclear tests of May 28, 1998 during a cabinet meeting held to consider the issue,” The Daily Times quoted Khan, as saying.

Khan said the present opposition leader in the National Assembly Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan would confirm his claims, as he is fully aware of the incident.

However, both Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) have rejected Khan’s claims.

PML-Q President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain termed former Foreign Minister’s statements as a ‘joke, saying both he and Mushahid Hussain, as the Information Minister, had supported the nuclear tests.

PML-N Information Secretary Ahsan Iqbal also denied Khan’s claims that Nawaz Sharif was opposed to conducting nuclear tests.

“Gohar’s statement regarding the PML-N chief’s stance on nuclear tests was contrary to fact. The statement has no relevance, as every one knew that Nawaz, the Prime Minister at the time, had decided to conduct the nuclear tests in 1998,” Iqbal said.

Meanwhile, former Federal Minister Abida Hussain said she had suggested the government to not to conduct nuclear tests in a huff merely to give a response to India.

Hussain said it was the then Foreign Minister Gohar Ayub Khan who had pressurized Nawaz Sharif for conducting the tests immediately. (ANI)

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Is Musharraf planning another coup in Pakistan?

August 26, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Islamabad/Dubai, Aug. 26 (ANI): Sources close to Pakistan’s former military ruler Pervez Musharraf have revealed that he may consider seizing power again, only a year after a marathon 9-year innings at the helm.

“Musharraf is planning a return to power. He is discussing it with his close aides. He is not done yet,” a source close to the former president said.

The web site daily.pk quoted the source, as saying that, Musharraf, who quit in August 2008 under immense national and international pressure, has called a meeting of his aides in Dubai to discuss his return.

“The date for the meeting has not yet been finalised but Mr. Musharraf will be flying to Dubai from London this week and then will summon his close aides there,” the source said.

The source said Musharraf held a meeting with his close political aides and some Nazims (mayors) in London recently and discussed with them his future political ambitions as his two years ban on political activities will expire in November this year.

The source said that the former ruling party Pakistan Muslim League (Quaid-e-Azam)’s secretary-general Humayun Akhtar Khan also held a meeting with Musharraf in London.

Meanwhile, former Pakistan Prime Minister Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain has said that he will not make efforts to unify Muslim League factions as envisaged by Musharraf. (ANI)

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‘Musharraf engineered defeat of 10 PML-Q leaders in 2008 polls’

May 12, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Lahore, May 12 (ANI): Former Pakistan President General (r) Pervez Musharraf engineered the defeat of ten PML-Q ministers in the 2008 polls to show the world that elections were free and transparent, Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain has claimed.

The Daily Times quoted Hussain as saying that the defeat of 10 PML-Q ministers in the 2008 general elections was ‘pre-planned’, and Musharraf had prepared a list of 10 ministers who were to be defeated.

Claiming that his name was added to the list at the ‘very last minute’, Hussain said he conveyed to Musharraf after the elections that his party’s defeat was engineered.

However, former foreign minister Khursheed Kasuri said the list Shujaat had referred to was prepared by PML-Q leader Pervaiz Elahi, instead of Musharraf.

He said list making was part of Elahi’s plan to become prime minister.

Hussain said that what happened in the past must be forgotten, and all political parties must unite to move forward, as the country was passing through a very difficult time.

On the question of influencing Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer’s decision to transfer posted officials during governor’s rule in Punjab, Hussain rejected that the decision was “in line with my emand”. (ANI)

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Musharraf says no woman or child was killed in Lal Masjid operation

April 20, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Islamabad, Apr. 20 (ANI): Former Pakistan President General (r) Pervez Musharraf has claimed that no child or woman was killed in the controversial military operation conducted in Lal Masjid in 2007.

“It is time to end the lies. Those who say women and children were killed and several hundreds died in the Lal Masjid operation are telling white lies. Only 94 people were killed and all of them were terrorists and extremists. Not a single woman or child was killed,” the Dawn quoted Musharraf, as saying.
However, Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid chief Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain rejected Musharraf’s claim, by saying that there were some children and women present when the operation was carried out against the militants.

“I do not know the exact number of children and women that were inside the mosque during the operation but it is a fact that the mother of Maulana Abdul Aziz (Imam of Lal Masjid) was among those killed in the battle,” said Hussain, who was in power during Musharraf’s regime.

Shujaat added that he had opposed the launching of operation, and even Musharraf, recently, had admitted this fact.

Controversy still prevails about the killing of women and children, and nobody exactly knows the entire truth.

Even Lal Masjid’s Khatib Maulana Abdul Aziz after his release on bail said, “It is quite difficult to tell the exact number of total women and children killed in the mosque during the operation.”

Musharraf, who was leaving for Saudi Arabia for Umrah, also did not have any clear view on the peace deal with the Taliban in the northwestern Swat valley.

“Nothing can be said. If the agreement is only for ensuring speedy and cheap justice within the Pakistani legal structure and system, then it is all right. But from a position of weakness, if the Taliban want to challenge the writ of the government, the deal is dangerous and should not be allowed,” Musharraf said. (ANI)

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PML-Q chief asks PML-N to stop ‘horse-trading’

March 29, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Islamabad, Mar. 28 (ANI): Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) President Chaudhary Shujaat Hussain has asked the PML (Nawaz) to stop horse-trading in its quest to poach its candidates to reach the magic number in Punjab.

“PML-N is abducting our party lawmakers to form its own favorite parliamentary party for its vested interests. To regain power in Punjab, they are indulged into kidnapping our MPAs parallel to making other MPAs lucrative offers for changing the loyalties,” The Nation quoted Hussain, as saying.
Addressing a Press conference at his residence, Hussain said that PML-N was employing ‘shameful’ and ‘illegal’ tactics like bribes for wooing PML-Q candidates.

He urged both the PPP and PML-N to end deceiving people, and demanded an end to governor’s rule in Punjab before March 30.

Hussain, who was using harsh words against the PML-N leadership after a long spell of restrain, asked the PML-N to return its forward bloc members to facilitate fresh talks.

“The agenda of talks between PML-N and ‘Q’ would now be an end to the illegal, undemocratic and unconstitutional practice of horse-trading and changing of loyalties of MPAs in Punjab. If the PML-N leadership wants to unite the different factions of the Pakistan Muslim League (PML), they should return our dissidents to the party fold,” he said.

The former Pakistan Prime Minister suggested to the party dissidents to migrate to India if they want to form a new parliamentary group, as there was no such law in the country’s constitution.

“There is no provision of such a new parliamentary group in Pakistan. However, there is such a law in India and if my party MPAs are interested to form a new group, they should migrate to India,” he said. (ANI)

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PPP leaders accept Zardari’s proposal to form an alliance with PML-Q in Punjab

March 20, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Islamabad, Mar. 20 (ANI): Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari’s proposal of forming an alliance with the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid in Punjab has been accepted by senior members of the Pakistan People’s Party.

According to sources, senior leaders of his party met with Zardari at the Presidency on Thursday, and agreed with his proposal.

The meeting came after Zardari cancelled a meeting of the party’s central executive committee and decided to meet senior party leaders, the Daily Times reports.

According to Presidential spokesman Farhatullah Babar, the meeting lasted for over four hours.

PPP leaders expressed their views on Governor’s Rule in Punjab, formation of a government in the province, the recent reinstatement of sacked judges, the Charter of Democracy and the process of forging reconciliation with all political forces in the country, Babar said.

Later, Zardari met Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani in a one-on-one meeting. Both discussed the current political situation in Pakistan, Governor’s Rule in Punjab and the reshuffling of the federal cabinet.

Sources said Zardari took his party members into confidence on his recent interaction with PML-Q leaders Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain and Pervaiz Elahi.

During the meeting, Zardari stressed the need to take stock of the current situation, understand challenges that lie ahead and chart out a clear way forward.

Gilani informed the meeting about his recent reconciliatory efforts with the PML-N leadership. (ANI)

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US, UK and Saudi Arabia move to sort out Pakistan’s political crisis

March 13, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Islamabad, Mar 13 (ANI): In a bid to broker a truce between the PPP-led Government and the PML-N and end the ongoing political turmoil that has alarmed the international community, US and British diplomats have spoken to top Pakistani leaders.

US Special Envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan Richard Holbrooke made separate telephone calls to Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, President Asif Zardari and PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif, while US Ambassador to Pakistan Anne Patterson met Nawaz Sharif and Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer separately.

She also met PML-Q President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain and Shahbaz Sharif on Wednesday; the Daily Times quoted sources, as saying.

They said Zardari, Holbrooke and Patterson held a teleconference that lasted for about 30 minutes.

“We want to see the situation dealt with in accordance with the rule of law in Pakistan and that violence be avoided and that any impediments to peaceful and democratic activities not be put in place,” the State Department said in a statement on Thursday.
ritish Foreign Secretary David Miliband also telephoned Zardari. Sources said that Miliband asked the President to take immediate steps to avert a political and security chaos.

UK High Commissioner Robert Brinkley has had a number of meetings with PML-N and PPP leaders in recent days to persuade them for reconciliation.

Brinkley had met Gilani on Wednesday and urged him to play an active role to broker a patch up.

Saudi Ambassador Ali Awadh Asseri is also in contact with PML-N and PPP leaders.

Australian High Commissioner Zorica McCarthy is also active to defuse growing political tensions, sources said. She had met Nawaz Sharif at his Raiwind estate on Wednesday. (ANI)

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Worried Gilani putting in an all out effort to resolve crisis

March 12, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Islamabad, Mar.12 (ANI): Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani is making all efforts to put -off the political fire that has engulfed the whole country currently.

Gilani said he would meet President Asif Ali Zardari, to chalk out a strategy to put an end to the crisis.

Addressing a function organised for the the newly-elected and outgoing senators here, Gilani said : “I will request the president to let the House decide which party will form the government in Punjab,” adding , “There are three stakeholders in Punjab – the PPP, the PML-N and the PML-Q. The one that proves support of the majority should form the government.”

According to The Daily Times, PML-Q leaders Chaudhry Shujaat and Pervaiz Elahi have reportedly met Prime Minister Gilani and Zardari separately.

Both party leaders have worked on a formula under which the PPP would get a 60 percent and the PML-Q a 40 percent share in the provincial government.

According to sources, the PML-Q has put forth a demand for the chief minister’s chair along with important cabinet portfolios such as the Finance Ministry. (ANI)

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PPP, PML-Q join hands to form government in Punjab

March 9, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Lahore, Mar.9 (ANI): The Pakistan Peoples’ Party (PPP) and Pakistan Muslim League – Quaid (PML-Q) have joined hands to form the government in Punjab province, and declare ‘war’ against the PML-N.

ccording to sources, PML-Q chief Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain has agreed to form a coalition with the PPP in the province, and has subsequently told Governor, Salmaan Taseer about this decision.

The Dawn quoted a PML-Q leader as saying that his party has reached an understanding with the PPP regarding sharing of power in Punjab.

“The PML-Q had been taken into confidence about the imposition of the Governor’s Rule and both the future coalition-partners are moving ahead according to a written script,” he added.

Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, president of PML-Q Punjab, said that his party would side with the PPP, if the PML-N-PPP feud did not subside by March 11.

According to sources, PPP was forced to announce this partnership to give a message to the PML-N that they were serious about installing a government in the province. (ANI)

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Sharif was offered bribe to accept PCO judiciary: PML (N)

February 25, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Islamabad, Feb.25 (ANI): Pakistan Muslim League (N) has said that Federal Government had tried to bribe Nawaz Sharif , and asked him to recognise the PCO judiciary.

Talking to mediapersons after a Supreme Court verdict which disqualified former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his brother Shahbaz Sharif from contesting elections, PML (N) leader Pervez Rashid said the government had offered Sharif that if he recognised PCO judiciary, he would be declared eligible for contesting polls and his brother would not be dethroned from Punjab chief minister’s chair.

“But the PML (N) downed the offer,” The News quoted Rashid, as saying.

A three member Supreme Court bench, headed by Justice Musa K. Laghari, disposed-off the Sharif’s electoral eligibility case on Wednesday. This in effect means that Shahbaz Sharif is Punjab Chief Minister.

Furious over the two line verdict, their lawyer, Akram Sheikh, said the decision was not surprising as the judges were only abiding by orders given to them by the Government.

“Sharif brothers were declared ineligible on the orders of President Zardari,” Sheikh said.

He said now the people of Pakistan will decide whether the verdict is on merit or not.

Latest reports from Lahore said that PML-N activists have taken to streets in protest against the apex court’s decision.

Almost all political parties have voiced their dismay over the verdict.

Commenting on the verdict, Pakistan Muslim League (N) Secretary General Ahsan Iqbal compared Zardari to former President General Pervez Musharraf, and charged him with following the policies of the previous military regime.

“PML (N) would not tolerate a one-man state and Shahbaz Sharif is still the Chief Minister of Punjab constitutionally,” Iqbal said.

Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) chief Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain termed it as ‘sad’ decision, and said that it should not be celebrated by any party.

Former Supreme Court Bar Association President Chaudhry Aitzaz Ahsan termed the decision as a ‘biased’ verdict. (ANI)

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Sharif could have been Pakistan President: PML-Q

January 12, 2009 By Rajesh Leave a Comment

Lahore, Jan 12 (ANI): Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid chief Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain has said that PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif would have been Pakistan President right now if he had approached his party after the February 18 elections.

Speaking during a luncheon hosted by the PML-Q for the Council of Pakistan Newspapers Editors (CPNE) office-bearers, Shujaat said the process of unification between various factions of the Muslim League was in progress, adding any alliance should be made on the basis of equality.

The Daily Times quoted him as saying that a positive approach was necessary for any such alliance to materialise, and added that the PML-Q had always preferred national interest over personal gains.

Shujaat said he wanted all political parties to sit together for devising a strategy to counter problems faced by the country.

CPNE President Arif Nizami termed the Muslim League’s alliance important for national interest, and said it would pave the way for a two-party system in the country.

CPNE General Secretary Khushnood Ali Khan said that protagonists of democracy had promulgated a ‘black law’ in the form of an ordinance for newspapers and news agencies.

Dubbing the ordinance as undemocratic, he said it was worse than the Press and Publication Ordinance promulgated by military dictator Ayub Khan. (ANI)

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PML-Q won’t be a party to conflict between PML-N, PPP

January 5, 2009 By Rajiv Gupta Leave a Comment

Islamabad, Jan 5 (ANI): Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid chief Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain has said that unity among all political forces is required in Pakistan, and added that he did not want to be a party to the conflict between the PML-N and the PPP.

“We don’t want to be a party to the conflict between the PML-N and the Pakistan People’s Party – which, in any case, is highly personalised and detrimental to the national interest,” Shujaat said.

Without naming the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), he said on Sunday that his party was ready to work with all other political parties, “if the purpose of the alliance is to protect the country’s sovereignty and unite against instability.”

Shujaat, however, also said that while an “alliance is a good idea, one has to see the purpose behind such a partnership”.

“If the purpose of an alliance is to protect the country’s sovereignty, get united against poverty, inflation, load shedding and external aggression … the PML-Q is ready to cooperate and work with all political parties,” the Daily Times quoted Shujaat, as saying.

“But if the alliance is to save the Punjab government, that is a matter of retaining power, not a point of principle. If an alliance is sought solely to pressure the federal government into fulfilling its promises made to Nawaz Sharif, we wish them well in their narrow agenda,” Shujaat added.

Shujaat also said that those who criticised his party for supporting a military ruler had ‘double standards’.

He also reiterated that the former ruling party would preserve its identity at all cost. (ANI)

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