PESHAWAR, Nov 6: Chief of Jamaat-i-Islami Qazi Hussain Ahmad said on Monday that it was General Musharraf who must be charged with sedition for suspending the Constitution. “The basic question is, is Gen Musharraf the sole custodian of the national interest?

“His is an illegal and unconstitutional government.

‘‘He is the one who has committed sedition”, he told Dawn on telephone from his house in Palosai, Peshawar, on Monday night.

“In a national crisis, a national consensus government is formed. Here we have an acute national crisis but unfortunately a single man is the incharge of the destiny of the nation.”

He said that he had been charged with sedition before as well but no government had ever dared brought the case to the courts.

“Let the government bring the case to the court and we will see it.”