ISLAMABAD, Feb 19: Acting parliamentary leader PML (N) Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan has said Gen Pervez Musharraf's policies on Afghanistan, Kashmir, nuclear programme and military operation in the tribal areas indicated a humiliating retreat.

In a statement issued here on Thursday, he said Musharraf's attempts to justify his policies only negated and damaged national interests. The PML-N leader said unfortunately a very weak government with the habit of yielding to pressure was currently leading a valiant people.

"The government's service to Islam is confined to gather a crowd of cheering loyal mullahs every second month in Islamabad, spending millions of rupees from the national exchequer." He asked the government to account for the amount spent on such events.

He recalled that NAB had registered cases against some former rulers on account of similar expenses. Chaudhry Nisar said the government's claim to serving the people could be gauged from the launching of military operations in a sensitive part of the country.

He said the people wanted to know which national interest was hurt by the people of tribal areas and what threat did they pose to the country. He said the people wanted to know why the government was fighting a war of outsiders inside the country.

He said the government always justified its negative actions with the excuse that "if we do not comply, then we will be forced to do that, etc." He said such excuses proved the defeatist mentality of the government.

Chaudhry Nisar said Gen Musharraf's so-called democracy amounted to ridiculing parliamentary democracy and was a gimmick to dupe the Western powers. He said the weakness of the Jamali government had darkened the future not only of parliamentary democracy but also the entire democratic structure.