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| Musharraf says he wept like a little girl after East Pakistan's fall |
| 2006-09-28 |
| Islamabad, Sept 27: Blaming the Zulfikar Ali Bhutto regime for 1971 dismemberment of Pakistan, President Pervez Musharraf says he along with his fellow soldiers wept when East Pakistan was separated to become Bangladesh and the capture of 90,000 Pakistani troops by Indian Army. "I broke down and cried. All my brave soldiers cried with me. It remains most sad and most painful day of my life. My anger..at the General who had taken charge of government and at some of the politicians of the time, still makes me see red," he wrote in his book 'In the Line of Fire'. "It was nexus between Bhutto and small coterie of rulers that destroyed Pakistan. The myopic rigid attitude of (Bangladeshi leader) Sheikh Mujibur Rehman did not help matters and he played into Bhutto's (Gen) Yahya (Khan's) hand by remaining rooted in East Pakistan", he said. Musharraf said he along with a company of Special Security Group (SSG) commandoes were tasked to go East Pakistan before it fell. "My troops were brimming with confidence and we were all set to go when the ceasefire was announced and East Pakistan was forcibly torn away from us to form the separate state of Bangladesh. It was terrible day. "When I was telling my troops about the ceasefire the surrender of our 90,000 personnel, (military and civilian) came about," the Pakistani leader said. |
| Posted by:john |
| #12 That explains alot, Perv is a little girl |
| Posted by: Captain America 2006-09-28 18:28 |
| #11 Page Six: Joyce Maynard Reveals Affair with Pervez Musharraf -- "He was more fun than J.D. Salinger" Hahahahaha! Uh oh... |
| Posted by: 6 2006-09-28 18:13 |
| #10 I'll buy it if he tells me how he felt when the Red Sox finally won it all in 2004. And he just might because his daughter lives around here someplace... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2006-09-28 15:54 |
| #9 Those were the days my friend, we thought they'd never end... |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2006-09-28 15:51 |
| #8 Seriously, I'm glad that Paki-Waki and BANGladesh are separate. Could you imagine a single Islamic nation with both nukes and the Shutter gun (with 3 round of bullets, of course)? They'd be Invincible(tm)! |
| Posted by: BA 2006-09-28 15:47 |
| #7 If he says he remembers where he was when he heard Sam Kinnison died, I'll buy his book. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2006-09-28 14:05 |
| #6 It's the president of Pakistan, next time on Oprah! |
| Posted by: Mike 2006-09-28 13:24 |
| #5 His autobiography is about to be released. Needs to convert himself into a saint and a father of his country to maximize sales. That said - most of these stories are so LAME! |
| Posted by: 3dc 2006-09-28 11:48 |
| #4 It seems like every day there's a new story about Pervez Musharraf's personal reminisence of some event or the other. Today it's the fall of East Pakistan; yesterday it was something about Kargil, the other day it was A.Q. Khan. What's next? Musharraf remembers the Kennedy assasination Musharraf's Summer of Love at Woodstock "I cried when Kurt Cobain died," says Musharraf Musharraf's Top Ten iPod Classic Rock Tracks #7 -- "Slow Ride" by Foghat Page Six: Joyce Maynard Reveals Affair with Pervez Musharraf -- "He was more fun than J.D. Salinger" |
| Posted by: Mike 2006-09-28 10:33 |
| #3 WTF, he wept for the wrong reason! Now, is it not clear now that his name is rightfully Perverse? |
| Posted by: Duh! 2006-09-28 10:15 |
| #2 He didn't weep or feel shame about the mass rapes and murders perpetrated by those 90 thousand. |
| Posted by: JFM 2006-09-28 08:20 |
| #1 |
| Posted by: john 2006-09-28 07:18 |