LAHORE, Oct 12: The Alliance for Restoration of Democracy has described the four-year rule of Gen Pervez Musharraf a story of failures on all fronts.

In a white paper issued on Sunday, alliance’s deputy information secretary Munir Ahmad Khan saw little hope for improvement as long as the general remained in the saddle.

The PML-N had been observing a black day on Oct 12 since its government was ousted in 1999 by Gen Musharraf.

The white paper has all allegations the conglomerate had been making on various occasions.

The ARD leader said the ouster of the PML-N government was an unconstitutional step and the general’s rule lacked legitimacy even today.

He challenged the official claims of economic revival, alleging that crime graph, prices and suicide rate had shot up over the years.

At the international level, he said, the country stood isolated. Countries which were once friendly to Pakistan were now on the side of India, he claimed.

He said the Commonwealth had refused to accept the existing system as representative, which was sufficient to refute the government’s assertions to the contrary.

Munir Khan alleged that Gen Musharraf was taking personal interest in the unification of various factions of the PML. It was under Gen Musharraf’s pressure that Chaudhry Shujaat had been made president of the unified party.

He said to form government in Sindh, the rulers had taken the Muttahida Qaumi Movement along, although it was an organization which had refused to accept the 1973 Constitution.

Intelligence agencies had asked Nawabzada Nasrullah Khan not to keep the ethnic organization in ARD’s fold because of its links with India.

Munir Khan said Gen Musharraf had failed to implement his seven-point agenda which he had announced shortly after taking over.

According to him, what was being called accountability was nothing more than victimization.

He alleged that loans worth Rs26 billion were written off by the present rulers and another Rs30 billion were going to be waived in the near future.

Industrial units whose loans were written off included the sugar mills owned by the Punjab chief minister and his family, the ARD leader alleged.