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LAHORE: The Pakistan Muslim League-N formally issued on Monday a charge-sheet against former president Pervez Musharraf, who had toppled its government 11 years ago, on Oct 12, and called upon the government to bring him back to the country through Interpol to try him for his “misdeeds”.
The charge-sheet containing 17 allegations and seven demands comes at a time when the former army chief, after a two-year legal ban on taking part in active politics, has formed his own faction of the Muslim League and claims that his comeback plan has unnerved Mian Nawaz Sharif.
PML-N spokesman Senator Pervaiz Rashid rejected an impression that the party decided to issue the charge-sheet now out of anxiety when he was asked why the PML-N had taken well over two years after the exit of Gen Musharraf to do so.
“Nervous is he (Musharraf) who fled the country while Nawaz returned home when the army general was in power and was claiming he would not allow the former prime minister to return home,” Mr Rashid said.
He asserted that his party had been reminding the PPP government all this time to hold the army dictator accountable and this attempt would serve as a reminder and also mark the anniversary of Oct 12, 1999 martial law.
The charge-sheet contains allegations that Musharraf imposed martial law twice, undertook Kargil misadventure, misused army to serve his personal interests, declared war against the people of Pakistan, blackmailed people through NAB, murdered Akbar Bugti, abducted people, killed scores of people in Lal Masjid, promoted cronyism, nepotism, corruption and favouritism, attacked the judiciary, promulgated NRO, massacred people on May 12 and Oct 18 in 2007, and got himself elected unconstitutionally as President of Pakistan.
The PML-N demanded that Musharraf be brought back through the Interpol to try him for “misdeeds, invocation and execution of Article 6 of the Constitution to penalise him against his crimes against the Basic Law, the state and the people of Pakistan”.
It also called for formation of a Kargil commission to fix responsibility for the misadventure, penalising Musharraf for violating human rights, carrying out abductions, massacre, forced disappearances and putting curbs on the media.
The party demanded that the former President’s resignation be changed into dismissal and his entire fringe benefits, facilitations and immunities which he was currently enjoying as a retired government official (army chief) be revoked.
The government, it said, should also hold an independent commission to investigate the matter which he (Gen Musharraf) had admitted in his book ‘In the Line of Fire’ with special reference to his revelations that he had been receiving billions of dollars for the war against terror and for handing over people to US which are known as missing persons.
