Monitoring Desk ISLAMABAD: Former Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali disclosed that former president and dictator Pervaiz Musharraf wanted to publish his picture on the currency notes in place of Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah but it was because of his refusal that it could not happen.
Jamali made this revelation during an interview with Hamid Mir in ‘Capital Talk’ of Geo News on Wednesday night.
Jamali said that he was not aware as to who had advised Musharraf to publish his picture on currency notes but he is of the belief that nobody can replace the founder of the nation. He said Musharraf gave a commitment to George W Bush in Camp David in 2003 for sending Pakistani troops to Iraq but he was not aware. When Jamali met Bush in White House he had informed the US president that he could not send Pakistani troops to Iraq without informing the parliament. After few days Musharraf had decided to dissolve the parliament just for sending troops to Iraq.
Sharifuddin Pirzada even had drafted the dissolution order but US Secretary of State Colin Powel had stopped Musharraf for dissolving parliament at the last minute.
While responding to questions of Hamid Mir, former prime minister also revealed that Musharraf was ready to handover Dr AQ Khan to US in 2004 and even an American plane had arrived in Islamabad for taking Dr Khan to the US but again he (Jamali) had blocked the move.
He said that Dr Khan is a hero of the Pakistani nation and he will remain a hero and “I had informed my cabinet that we can not hand him over to the Americans”. Jamali claimed that he had also blocked the privatisation of Pakistan Steel Mills, National Bank of Pakistan and sale of Roosevelt Hotel in US which is owned by PIA and these were the reasons of his differences with Musharraf.
He said that uniting all the factions of Muslim League is difficult but not impossible. Pir Pagaro gave him the mission to unite all the factions and he is not a candidate of any office in the party.
He clearly said that the PML-Q can not go along with PPP and ultimately he will be able to unite all the leagues. Nawaz Sharif and Ch Shujaat were together for almost fifteen years and to unite them again he was prepared to beg Mr Sharif with clasped hands, he said.
Jamali said, “I will do anything to save Pakistan as Pakistan is our identity and we cannot afford to lose it.” He said that flexibility is necessary in politics but People’s Party can not continue with anyone as they never continued with anyone in the past.
To another question, the former prime minister said first he will try to unite the Muslim Leaguers and then they will decide whether Musharraf will be acceptable in the Muslim League fold or not.
While talking about Nawab Akbar Bugti, he said Bugti was not a traitor. He gave his vote in favour of Pakistan in 1947 and now if Mushrraf says that after coming back he will repeat the act of killing Bugti, no one has the right to do it and media should ask Musharraf why he did it.
On the question about giving Rs110 million to Nawab Bugti, he said that it was an agreement between Bugti and Musharraf in January 2002. “I just gave him what he was promised by Musharraf,” he added.
I never liked that fashion… by all means make a nat pile of notes but theirs no need to throw them and trample them… especially since they bear images of our leaders and even our holiest shrines and greatest fortifications.
No wonder the countris in this state… i bet were cursed everytime we throw notes at dancers
^ Captain sahab not every country has photos of Qaid e Azam or our holy shrines on them!
That to me is reason to respect our currency, rather than throw it between feet. By all means i can use dollars and pounds for toliet paper if i have to… but never a Pakistani note.
How is Quaide Azam so ‘holy’ that throwing those notes at dancers would make God angry? US dollar has some of it leaders’ pics when we all know where these bills are stuffed, we don’t see US in same situation.
Somebody told him this way to be remain in news.
And the people disclosing about him.
All idiots who remained with him for long
And now making stories.
By the way, your monkey Nawaz would be too ugly AND too stupid to be considered for that.
Talking of ugliness I am thinking of Rana Bulldog Sanaullah on currency notes. Now THAT would be a sight to behold!
By the way, your monkey Nawaz would be too ugly AND too stupid to be considered for that.
Talking of ugliness I am thinking of Rana Bulldog Sanaullah on currency notes. Now THAT would be a sight to behold!
same goes for Altaf hussain, or zardari for that matter.....they are ugly inside out.
only if kashmala tariq was printed on notes....that would be good :D
Musharraf never desired his face on Pakistan currency and that is lie. Anyhow, what Hamid Mir insinuated and Jamali laughed is completely BS. Actually, from the interview of Jamali where Hamid Mir continuously insinuated ridiculous claims itself is funny, because from that interview it seems that Musharraf was a weak ruler/dictator who only kept desired ridiculous things and Jamali was such a powerful Prime Minister that he kept vetoing whatever Musharraf desired. One thing was most funny, that is, Jamali met Bugti in 2001 before he became Prime Minister and Musharraf disliked that, still Jamali became Prime Minister on nomination of Musharraf ... now someone should have asked ‘Jamali and Hamid Mir’ that if Musharraf disliked Jamali then why he made him Prime Minister?. :)
[Well, in one TV program Hamid Mir confessed that most media stories and reports presented in Pakistan by him and others are based on 75 percent lies and 25 percent truth].
Anyhow, the first currency (legal tender) of Pakistan that had Face of someone other than Quaid-e-Azam (as far as I know), is coin that came out recently. That coin is of BeNazir face (commemorating her death ... with date 1953-2007). I saw Rs 10 coin, but I do not know as there might be higher denomination coin too. I have got picture of the coin and could have put picture here but I do not know how to, so left that exercise :):
