Musharraf-led League starts ‘political journey

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I can’t wait to see Mushrraf canvasing for vote for his League across the country. :smiley:

Musharraf-led League starts ‘political journey’

Wednesday, June 09, 2010

By Imtiaz Ali

KARACHI: The All Pakistan Muslim League, led by former president Gen (retd) Pervez Musharraf, has started its ‘political journey’ from Karachi to target, what its representatives call, the politics of dynasty in order to empower the masses.

“During our two-day stay in the city, we observed unprecedented sentiments for Gen Musharraf, which showed that he was more popular than we expected,” said Musharraf’s spokesman Maj-Gen (retd) Rashid Qureshi while addressing a press conference at the Karachi Press Club on Tuesday. “We got an encouraging reception in Sindh,” he said. Rashid Qureshi claimed that Musharraf was also popular among expatriate Pakistanis. He said whenever Pervez Musharraf returns to the country he would lead the party. He said the former president would decide himself the date of his arrival in Pakistan, but hoped that he would return soon.

Speaking next, Barrister Mohammed Ali Saif said that they had started a mass contact campaign in Karachi and other districts of Sindh, which would be followed in the Punjab, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan.

He announced the setting up of regional councils for Karachi and other districts of Sindh to mobilise the people. He said that they would subsequently call a meeting of all regional councils, adding: “We are approaching the people with a new message i.e. “Pakistan First” and think beyond parochial interests.” He said during this campaign they would raise voice against the family (dynasty) politics and in support of empowering the people.

About the allegations being leveled against Musharraf regarding the Lal Masjid episode, assassination of Nawab Akbar Bugti and former premier Benazir Bhutto, Barrister Saif said these were ìmere allegationsî and Musharraf would respond to them at appropriate forums and appropriate time.

He said Musharraf would defend himself in a ìpolitical wayî before the masses. He, however, avoided a direct reply to a question as to what extent the fate of the All Pakistan Muslim League would be different from the party formed by former Army chief General (retd) Aslam Beg.

He also parried a question as to whether the new Muslim League would support the Army’s intervention in politics. Saif opined that being a lawyer he believed that the Armyís interference in politics would be an extra-constitutional step. But, he added, the intervention of the Army in certain circumstances was a ìpolitical questionî.

He said the government spent Rs 600 million on the United Nations inquiry into the assassination of Benazir Bhutto but its results were not desirable. It was evident from the fact that the government had made the UN report a part of the FIR lodged in Rawalpindi in 2007, he added. He said there could be political motives behind leveling allegations about the Benazirís assassination but the ground realities might be different. He declared that they would respond to the allegations leveled against Musharraf with documentary proofs.

Barrister Saif said the All Pakistan Muslim League has started its political journey at a testing time, claiming that labours, students, women, minorities and different political personalities, had demonstrated solidarity with them during their stay in Karachi.

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And the political campaign would be something like this

1) we'll generate more foreign exchange by selling Pakistanies to US

2) We'll create more jobs by creating fiasco in the country, we'll kidnap people from their houses, this way, no one will ask for jobs, all will be busy in demonstrations or hiding

3) we'll get support of most corrupt people of all the parties, these corrupt people shall be certified with label of honesty and shall be held responsible for teaching corruption to other world bodies, by this, no one will us corrupt

4) we'll have special centers where the party president i.e. Musharaf will teach tabla and Thumkay at free of cost, by this the people of Pakistan shall be skilled enough to earn their ROZGAR in and out of Pakistan

any other suggestions will be welcomed... and please do not fall for the propaganda of the enemies, our intentions are clear and we up to a task.. now don't ask the task otherwise, you loved one would be asking for you

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hi

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And you have got proof that they were innocents?? I would be ready to send some people like that for free. We cry about extremists targetting innocent people but when same extremists are properly dealt with, we use propaganda for our political gains. Even lal masjid extremists became innocent victims when we all knew their activities were a huge challenge fo authorities and to brush it all under the carpet, all we heard about was innocent young kids being murdered to please Americans?????

I don't really know what are you talking about.

This is why i mentioned the name of Dr Ata Ur Rehman in the other thread. We had people like him doing an excellent job but just because they were appointed by Musharaff, they had to be corrupt and result is that we have absolutely incompetent useless ministers holding all the top positions. Just because Chaudhary brothers were there doesn't mean that all of them were ALL corrupt. I hate Chaudhary brothers but Musharaff needed some kind of support and no one has any option when it comes to MQM, they go in bed with every party, they are like a cancer but we have to live with it.

No need to waste time on that.

Good luck to Musharaff, hopefully he won't repeat his mistakes he made in the last couple of years but i support him because i truely believe that he was also sincere to the country and most of his actions were taken in Pakistan's best interest. He absolutely lost the plot in the end and tried to hold on to the power but he knew what was coming up so ended up making mistakes.

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The deluded corrupt dictator should stick to Facebook.

He has caused enough death and damage to Pakistan.

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Innocent until proven guilty, how many of them get fair trial before being sold to USA? the great friend of MUSHY...

You catch bad guys and then prosecute them.. this is what makes you a noble society, failing to do that leaves difference between them and you..

Now there can be bad guys, but where are they? why they are tried at courts ( that is why we have courts, if are not going for trial, then we better shut them down, it will save us some money, well actually the great mushy even did that didn't he ??? arrested majority of judges)

many mushy fans don't... it is like telling PPP supporter that CORRUPTION is not your right and he reply back asking .. what?

I really liked mushy in his first three years, yes few of the team members were jerk but overall it did really good.. but then, looking forward to Chaudharies for Support, is like Eygpt Looking towards Israel for support... No one in sane mind would have done that... Mushy was popular enough those days, he might have done well if he had made his own political group out of persons with great reputation instead of going to people with the worst reputation of both PML (N) and PPP... he had chance back then and he screwed it.. there is absolutely no justification for going to thugs like Pervaiz Ilahhi and SHujaat...

you might have graduated

He was given the chance, he screwed it big time... i really hope he don't return to the country and if he ever does that, he should be hanged for giving a new life-line to NS and ZArdari

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If we go by your logic

you should now llike Musharraf as chaudhries are not with him anymore

OR

you should hate PPP, PMLN, Jamat etc too as MQM and chaudhries were with them too during one time or another

Your choice. Pick 1

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had he left them by choice and have admitted of making mistake, then it could have been considered, however case is different, he was dumped by Chaudharies... like a Tissue paper and it is little to late for him to repent...

none of these has been my choice anyway, unlike others who worship one of them, i do not like any of them....

anyways looking at your reply and posing questions reminds me of Zia's referendum which was something like this

You want Islamic law

Yes
No

if yes, i am the president of Pakistan

The reason i liked Mushy is that in his 1st 3 years, he was there running the govt with best available people... and not with your beloved politicians... the moment he turned to them.. he was like them..

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reaching to conclusion quickly, arent we? :)

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MQM watch out as musharraf has lots of support amongst karachites.

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It will be good to see him back and get Pakistan rid of Zardari and Nawaz Sharif.

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u started it, didn't u

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We have a few options, we have to take the least evil:

1 - Nawaz - PML-N
2 - PPP - Zardari
3 - Imran Khan
4 - MQM
5 - Musharraf

Nawaz & Zardari - should be eliminated immediately from the list since they have made Pakistan a family battleground for the past 2/3 decades.

Imran Khan - confused, where is the Real Imran Khan? He talks about democracy and then he backs Maulana Fazlur Rahman to be Prime Minister of our country, supported Musharraf earlier on, but after some time he realized that Mush had taken over through a military coup and that we don't have democracy.....I don't know what he was doing before that, probably smoking pot.

MQM - no chance of winning, have done good for Karachi but the leader is corrupt and in hiding.

That leaves us with......

MUSHARRAF - may have been a general, but I would any day prefer his "dictatorship" over "democracy". He brought the media to the country (please don't give me the one instance when he shut down GEO - they deserved shutting down), well about how he improved our economy - entire books can be written, he brought democracy to the grass roots level - brought in the city districts, I really don't care if he sacked the CJ, Musharraf wanted the power YES I agree but for a good reason, if he was really power hungry then his family would've been into politics as well, so don't give me the BS that he is corrupt, and NRO allowed those corrupt people to come back but it was PAKISTAN that voted for them, a country like Pakistan needs TRUE dictatorship and DANDA.

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^^ it is easy to name the political leader ship responsible for everything and praise the military dictator when comparing it to them

lets have a brief analysis of military dictators of Pakistan, after the great golden period of Ayoub, Pakistan lost his eastern wing... what an achievement

the 2nd one, the Great Zia aka Ameeer ul Momeen etc etc, gave us nothing but the gift of Kalashinkov Culture and sectarian and ethnically divided nation.... then come the great Mushy... in his era Pakistan has achieved the great numbers on economic and other fronts, but has further fueled the fire set by Zia.... today, because of the the greatest things happened to Pakistan ( Mushy ) is sitting and enjoying his life in a condo in London while we are suffering from the fire he has set to warm his hands.. Mushy should be hanged for his crime and should be an example for any other dictator thinking of any adventure...

If he is so daring and is dying to get into politics, why don't he come to Pakistan and start it from here.... NS and Zardari/BB were ten time better then this coward who did try to visit Pakistan despite the threats they had for the lives... this thing we call Mushy is more coward then NS.. how come he can be leader of us...

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Like spending a decade each in exile to avoid the "threat" from courts, how brave!

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I dont normally participate in political threads as every debater is a winner.

Having said that, Your statement of comparing NS and Zardari/BB "to" Musharraf **is apt for jesters of the circus to raise a laugh!!

Thank you for the joke. I needed a good laughter to begin my day. :d

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Musharraf is Pakistan's last hope. I hope he gets a lot of votes. He can restore our handicapped economy and he knows how to wet the indian government's pants.

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First he should return to Pakistan and face the music; for serious to petty charges ranging from murder to power theft. After he clears himself from the multitude of charges, he should be allowed to contest the elections, and we'll see how popular he is.

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Musharraf is worse, and I dont know why you keep a blind eye to his corruption, dishonesty, spineless nature and mockery of what Pakistan stands for. BB/Nawaz ruled the country for a combined 4 terms of interrupted short stints and they still did a lot better than Musharraf's uninterrupted decade of terror and devastation. Pakistan was doing much better in the 90s than its doing now. Also, Pakistan was ranked more corrupt in his times than it was in the times of both BB and Nawaz.

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Spock I'm sorry but you have NOTHING to BACK YOU UP.

And please don't say Pakistan did better during those 4 terms under NS/Benazir. *Are you blind?
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We were an economic failure, our foreign exchanges were empty, corruption was at an all time high, we did not have a free media....the list can go on

What are you talking about?

From 1999-2007 we experienced the greatest economic growth in our country. An economy of a country is like the engine of the country. The media which criticized Musharraf and labeled him dictator should thank him for giving them the freedom.

What pisses me off the most is that you people do not give him credit for the economic growth and the media freedom. these 2 things are the most important for a country. I would understand if you dislike him for the decisions he made in 07-09 and I wouldn't really argue that point. It would make sense but making blatant statements that he is a dictator and he is corrupt, he is a coward, he should be hanged .....seriously - especially after the media freedom and economic growth???

Musharraf's problem was he was a democratically minded dictator, he should have been a real dictator.

And about him returning, do you read the news???? Well, did you read the title of this thread????
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He is coming back to Pakistan!**

Pakistan as a nation deserve true dictatorship. How can you defend/support NS/Zardari? This is a joke.

I agree Musharraf made some really bad decisions but he did not make them because he was corrupt, he truly believed that those decisions would help Pakistan. He is the man who brought democracy into this country.

Look we are going into a cycle again: Bhutto, NS, Bhutto, NS, army, Zardari.....probably NS