Pakistan Politics

Dubai: Former President Pervez Musharraf has said that he had meetings with Asif Zardari even after Benazir Bhutto’s murder and he indicated about retaining his presidency.

This he said in an interview with a private TV channel, adding that he could not do many things due to 9/11, as it was not possible then.

Former president said that he had several meetings with Asif Zardari which lasted for hours, in which they smoked cigars and had coffee.He said Pakistan Muslim League-Q would have won the elections if BB and Nawaz Sharif would not return to the country. All things went wrong after BB’s assassination.
Read More »All went wrong after BB’s murder: Musharraf

20 pc Karachiites support MQM, claimed President
Islamabad—In a cable sent on Saturday, 20 June 2009 by US Ambassador Anne W. Patterson wrote; ‘although he (President Zardari) is not a popular leader and admits himself that he came to high office without previous direct experience as an elected politician.

The cable also said, ‘Prime Minister Gilani has shown strong leadership skills in building Parliamentary coalitions at times of national crisis and in the absence of public leadership by President Zardari.
Read More »Zardari lacks ‘public leadership’ skills: WikiLeaks

* Ex-president defends 1999 coup, says Nawaz ‘deposed himself’ through ‘unconstitutional’ actions WASHINGTON: Former president Pervez Musharraf said on Friday that all elected governments have failed the country. On a speaking tour of the United… Read More »Elected governments failed Pakistan: Musharraf

NEW YORK: Former US president George W Bush, in comments published in a mass-circulated tabloid, criticized President Barack Obama’s policies, saying he has made a “mess of relations” with Pakistan and that his Afghan strategy was “adrift.” Bush’s comments about his Democratic successor are contained in a dispatch of the New York Daily News.Read More »Obama has made a ‘mess of relations’ with Pakistan: Bush

Democracy has lost its shape in Pakistan because every leader and political party wants to be democratic in a manner that their personal and party interests are advanced and their political adversaries are placed at a disadvantage

If a country can become democratic on the basis of sloganeering by political leaders, Pakistan would have been the most democratic country in the world. All political leaders express their support for democracy and fully commit themselves to implementing it in the country.
Read More »Yes democracy, no democracy —Dr Hasan-Askari Rizvi

PML-N wants ex-president’s trial under Article 6

The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz has issued a 16-point charge sheet against former president Gen (r) Pervez Musharraf, demanding that the former president be brought back through Interpol and tried under Article 6 of the constitution, a private TV channel reported on Monday.

According to the channel, the 10-page document also made seven demands from the government asking it to take action against Musharraf. The party had alleged that Musharraf had toppled the elected government on October 12, 1999 and held him responsible for killing 800 soldiers in the Kargil operation.Read More »Charge sheet against Musharraf

BERLIN: Former military ruler Pervez Musharraf said that the times of military coups in Pakistan are over and the latest political developments have shown that the Supreme Court has set a bar on itself not to validate a military takeover.

“The West blames Pakistan for everything. Nobody asks the Indian prime minister, why did you arm your country with a nuclear weapon? Why are you killing innocent civilians in Kashmir? Nobody was bothered that Pakistan got split in 1971 because of India’s military involvement. The United States and Germany gave statements, but they didn’t mean anything,” ex-dictator Pervez Musharraf said in an interview with German magazine Der Spiegel.Read More »Musharraf do not see any possibility of Military coup in Pakistan.

* Musharraf plans to contest elections by 2013
* No support for Musharraf by any politician, leader

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s ex-military ruler Pervez Musharraf has spent two years building a Facebook following and cultivating the media, but few believe his audacious plan to recapture power has any chance of success.

Aside from the small matter of possible death or arrest if he steps foot on home soil, there is little sign he can win over the politicians he alienated, the judges he sacked, his former underlings at the military or the Americans.
Read More »Musharraf comeback looks remote

LONDON: Former president Gen. (Retd.) Pervez Musharraf Friday admitted that political mistakes were committed in the twilight years of his regime and sought apology from Pakistani nation for the same.

“These mistakes caused damage to the country,” he said while addressing a program held here to formally announce launching of his party – All Pakistan Muslim League (APML).Read More »Musharraf seeks apology from Pakistani nation