*More and more people from his own lota league dissing him! Now you have the speaker of musharrafs hand picked parliament for 5 years! *
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ISLAMABAD: Former Speaker of National Assembly, Chaudhry Amir Hussain has said that President Pervez Musharraf should be reprimanded for mistakes he has made. **
Addressing a seminar at the concluding ceremony of “Urs” of Bari Imam here, former National Assembly speaker said western democracy was not in the interest of Pakistan and “Shariah” should be promulgated in the country.
General ® Hamid Gul also addressed the seminar. He said Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto and Benazir Bhutto were penalized since both had strengthened Pakistan’s nuclear program. He said President Musharraf should be trialed for violating the constitution of Pakistan. He said Lal Mosque and Jamia Hafsa administration was willing to surrender; yet government launched operation at behest of America.
PML-N leader Ishaq Dar also spoke on the occasion. He said nation would soon hear the good news of development of a long-range missile. He said economic mismanagement of previous government has resulted in present economic crisis.
ISLAMABAD: President Pervez Musharraf’s political and diplomatic allies have been maintaining a significant silence at a time when he is being attacked from all sides by his adversaries.
These allies, especially the Pakistan Muslim League and the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), have hugely benefited from their alignment with President Musharraf of over eight years.
PML-Q President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain has gone abroad for his medical check-up. The other top party leader, Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi, was more concerned about taking on the government for scrapping the Kalabagh Dam project rather than defending the beleaguered president.
A senior PML-Q leader smiled when asked why they had simply abandoned the president and were not coming to his rescue. He promised to call back but didn’t. Some other PML-Q leaders this correspondent tried to contact in order to elicit their response to the renewed onslaught on the president preferred to remain silent.
PML-Q Secretary-General Mushahid Hussain Sayed is also abroad as part of a parliamentary delegation. He has stopped defending Musharraf and has instead been showing reservations over his certain policies.
A large battalion of PML-Q and MQM MNAs, senators and MPAs has preferred not to counter the mounting attack, mainly emanating from the PML-N stalwarts, on the president. “Our defence of the president may not matter much as the support of the Army and Washington to Musharraf will be the real factors in deciding his fate,” a PML-Q leader said. “If they too dump him, he would have to go.”
In the past, senior US officials always made telling remarks whenever they sensed their ally was in deep trouble. These were meant to salvage the president’s position and tell the political leadership that it should forget about getting rid of him in the immediate future. Washington has been silent for quite some time as the president came under increasing pressure.
Even the visit of US Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte, who was expected to break the lingering logjam to get Musharraf out of the tight spot, had to be called off. The recent meetings of different delegations of American lawmakers with Pakistani leaders have not helped the president either. Rather, during their stay in Pakistan some American senators disparaged President Musharraf.
Amid the silence by the president’s political and foreign allies, his rivals at home are mounting criticism with every passing day. It was this silence or ‘winks’ from some quarters that the PML-N Quaid Nawaz Sharif subjected Musharraf to the severest of attacks the other day.
It had been an enduring standard practice of the MQM supremo Altaf Hussain to aggressively shield the president whenever he was in hot waters. But this time Altaf Hussain has also withheld his public support. Particularly after the induction of his nominees in the Sindh cabinet, he is no more publicly defending the president. Sensing the likely emergence of a dangerous situation, he has now summoned the top MQM leaders to London for an immediate session. :D:D:D
The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) which, after coming to power, was dubbed as a new Musharraf ally has also discarded its policy to go soft on him. Its changed strategy came into light after Asif Zardari termed Musharraf a ‘relic of the past’, standing as a stumbling block between the people and democracy.
However, the federal government’s treatment to the long march of the lawyers, the PML-N activists and others on June 12 will actually expose the PPP’s policy. Musharraf has been “maintaining a deliberate low profile” in the face of escalating attacks. His spokesman Maj-Gen (retd) Rashid Qureshi does keep issuing constant denials and contradictions about the fate of his boss.
It was a common talk in Islamabad’s chattering classes that Musharraf would not be asked by the Army to continue if he said he had decided to bow out. It was also hinted that the premier institution would not allow his “disgrace or humiliation” through impeachment or trial on treason charges as demanded by Nawaz Sharif. It was also being repeated in the capital’s drawing rooms that Zardari was also creating a situation for Musharraf to step down instead of impeaching him.
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I honestly hope these lota rats who joined Musharraf aren't spared. Zardari has already given a bone to that creature Altaf by incorporating him in the Govt. I hope the Q leaguers who try and jump ships now are left in the water to sink and die (politically)
Are you saying the great leader of the Q league is not worthy? Are you now admitting that the handpicked leaders for the last 5 years were nutjobs aalsi? Are you admitting that the last 5 years were a failure, finally
Ex-Speaker comments are right against Musharraf, Mush must be reprimanded on the actions he did. PML(Q) suffered in elections due to Mush's policies. If his favorite party lost due to his game plan, he must quit the presidency.
No mercy at all.
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Ijaz-ul-Haq, another one of Mush's chamchaz lashed out too, and said Musharraf's actions in November were nothing but martial law, he should know best, as his daddy (anohter Musharraf) was quite fond of such unconstitutional measures.
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Man! Musharraf poor fella is getting a lot of lashing. It used to be tongue lashing. But these days the lashing is coming from lotas and chamchas. So can we say Musharraf is getting lota-lashing, and chamcha-lashing? Musharraf must be really agitated. Talk about the moment that he wants to use lota (in a vulnerable position), and suddenly and without a warning he gets lashed by none other than the very lota. Painful!
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Eat the cake, shoot the baker; who's the hypocrite the baker for baking a bad cake or the eater who gorged the cake to the last crumb and then decided it was bad?
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The baker, who isn't qualified to become a baker, but did so illegally. Plus, these eaters were hailed as champions of democracy by Musharraf's supporters.
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Ex-servicemen for Musharraf’s court-martial
submitted 3 hours 10 minutes ago LAHORE - The members of Ex-Servicemen Society (Lahore region) have demanded impeachment and subsequent court-martial of General (r) Pervez Musharraf, reinstatement of judges on pre-November 2 position and abolition of the National Reconciliation Ordinance.
The ex-servicemen will join the long march of the lawyers in case the above demands are not granted.
President Ex-Servicemen Maj Gen (r) Shafique Ahmed, Secretary Brig (r) Muhammad Yusuf, General (r) Muhammad Khursheed, Brig (r) Inam-ul-Haq and others said this, while talking to media here on Wednesday after holding a meeting. Ex-generals and other senior officers of the army attended the meeting, and passed a unanimous resolution that because of Musharraf’s policies, Pakistan had been damaged a lot, which was a tangible reason for his impeachment and court-martial.
They also demanded restoration of the judiciary to pre-November 2 position, without connecting this to the constitutional package. They also demanded for indicting rest of the generals who were party to power grabbing. “This should be started with Musharraf, while keeping the army out of non-professional duties,” they averred.
Shafique Ahmed told the mediamen that the ex-servicemen also demanded that the American war on Pakistani land should be brought to an immediate end. “Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan should be treated like a hero, while the Kashmir issued must be resolved through the UN resolutions. We want good relations with India, but not isolated from the resolution of the Kashmir issue,” they maintained.
He also said Musharraf did not have any right to write off loans of anyone, and to forgive the looters of the people’s money through the NRO.
The members of the society also demanded judges’ reinstatement through executive order. They also clarified their position, saying they did not have contacts with any political party including the PML-N. They said the defence budget should also be presented in the parliament.
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Musharraf reconciled to exit’
Thursday, June 05, 2008
ISLAMABAD: President Pervez Musharraf, threatened by possible impeachment, is reconciled to stepping down before he is hounded out of office, according to a senior adviser to the government.
Musharraf has probably got a matter of weeks, at most a few months, before the curtain falls, political insiders say. “He is prepared to go and go with dignity,” said the source close to the leadership of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP).
“We will try to make it very dignified,” the PPP source said, adding it was politically difficult to be seen helping the disliked president as such a stance risked losing popular support. Although Musharraf has been a staunch ally in the US-led “war on terror” and launched a peace initiative with India, his exit is unlikely to disturb either so long as Pakistan stabilises. The PPP hopes to buy time to settle terms for the president’s departure and steal the thunder from coalition partner Nawaz Sharif.
