PML-N issues charge sheet against Musharraf

LAHORE: The Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz has issued a chargesheet against former president Gen (retd) Pervez Musharraf, demanding that the ex-dictator should be brought back by Interpol, ARY NEWS reports.

The charge sheet contains 16 allegations against Musharraf and seven demands from the federal government to take action against the former military ruler.

According to ARY NEWS, the 10-page document states that the former president started the ‘adventure’ of Kargil war with India, and used the Pakistan Army for his ‘own personal gains’.

In the PML-N charge sheet, Musharraf was also blamed for imposing martial law in the country, using National Accountability Bureau for victimizing his political opponents, killing the veteran Baloch politician Nawab Akbar Bughti and illegally arresting hundreds of people from Balochistan.

The charge sheet further states that the former military ruler attacked the judiciary in his tenure by imposing emergency and violating the Constitution.

It charges Musharraf for handing over innocent Pakistani people, including Dr Aafia Siddiqui, to the US ‘in return of dollars’, demanding that a commission must be constituted to a probe into the issue.

Musharraf was also held responsible for committing massacre in Lal Masjid ordering military operation against its occupants that left hundreds of innocent students dead and unleashed militancy and a chain of suicide bombing in the country.

It alleged that he was also involved in a stock exchange scam.

In the charge sheet, it was demanded of the government to approach Interpol to bring him back to the country and register a case against him under Article 6 of the Constitution.

Talking to a private news TV, Senator Pervez Rasheed of PML-N said after the charge sheet it was now responsibility of the federal government to take action against Musharraf for violating constitution and toppling the government of PML-N

To a question that why PML-N is not filing FIA against the dictator, he said “we have issued a charge sheet from the people of Pakistan to the President, Prime Minister and Parliament of the nation, and don’t want to take any step that invite another Musharraf.”

The former dictator is currently in London.

After the launch of his new political party, All Pakistan Muslim League (APML), Musharraf continues to attract global headlines. However, hundreds of people have protested outside conventions of his faction in London, chanting slogans against him and putting shoes on face of his posters.

http://www.arynews.tv/english/newsdetail.asp?nid=38252

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