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| Chargesheet ready for impeachment of Musharraf | |
| 2008-06-10 | |
Nisar said President Musharraf had abrogated the constitution and twice imposed martial law in the country. He toppled an elected government, and put an elected prime minister behind the bars, the PML-N leader added. He said Musharraf launched the ‘Kargil misadventure’ without consulting the then government and ‘misused’ the Pakistan Army for advancing his own interests and to impose himself on this country. He said Musharraf deployed the army in tribal areas to fight another country's war in the name of ‘the war on terror’ without parliament's consent. Nisar also said the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) was formed under the umbrella of the military to victimise and pressure political opponents to join a certain political party. Other charges on the list include assassination of Baloch nationalist leader Akbar Bugti and dismissal of 60 judges of the superior judiciary and putting them under house arrest. The PML-N leader claimed that Musharraf not only ordered extra-judicial arrests of innocent people and political workers in Balochistan and other provinces, but also handed over more than 600 people to the United States in exchange for money. He said: “The president was solely responsible for the Lal Masjid carnage in which hundreds of innocent children were bombed.” Nisar also alleged that President Musharraf had written new chapters on nepotism, cronyism, favouritism and corruption in Pakistan's history, which, according to him, was exposed in the privatisation of Pakistani Steel Mills, Pakistan Telecommunication Limited and the Habib Bank. | |
| Posted by:Steve White |