India rejects Musharraf’s visa application

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KARACHI: Indian government rejected the visa application of former Pakistan’s president, Pervez Musharraf, Indian media reported on Wednesday.

Musharraf was invited to address a seminar organized by the Young President Organization but his visa application was rejected because the Indian government had reservations for his political motives. Trend Pk

Protests marred Musharrafs political convention

Hundreds of PML-N activists protested against Pervez Musharraf in Manchester and marred the political convention of newly formed APML. Those who raised slogans were expelled out of the gathering. Pervez Musharraf said that the miscreants were paid to create disturbance. He further said that these protests would not deter him from his path.
Protesters gathered in Manchester to express their anguish and anger against him with placards and banners in their hands. They also threw shoes on Musharrafs big sized portraits. They raised slogans against him. President of PML-N England Chapter Zubair Gul said that Pervez Musharraf betrayed the Kashmiris and that he should be trialed for high-treason. He announced that Musharraf would not be spared of strong protests anywhere in UK. After this, some people also protested inside the convention but were soon expelled out of it.
Pervez Musharraf reacted by saying that he would not deter an inch from his path and would continue with his aims. He said that the miscreants were paid for marring the whole convention but he was least bothered. Nawaz Sharif should not react emotionally; its just the start of the game, he added.Earlier, Pervez Musharraf said that he should have remained COAS for five years more. He rejected the notion that he had opined of Kashmiri militants been trained in Pakistan.
In an interview to an Indian channel, Musharraf said that NRO was his blunder, whereas he regretted confrontation and mishandling with the judiciary. He censured terrorist attacks inside India.
Musharraf said he was near to framing an agreement for the solution of Kashmir. He said Manmohan Singh was agreed on a four-point plan to resolve the issue. He further added that he is not ashamed of his remarks for Nawaz Sharif, in which he sarcastically called him a Clear-Headed man.

PM Gilani rebukes Musharraf’s statement against Nawaz Sharif

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ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani has rebuked Pervez Musharraf’s statement, given against PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif on Saturday in London.

The Prime Minister, in an immediate statement after Musharraf’s speech, said that passing personal remarks about anyone is not a favorable act in politics.

Gilani added that Pervez Musharraf must avoid such condemnable remarks, especially on the first day of his political career.

He added further that politics are like a thorny valley where you must be careful, even at the time of taking names of your opponents.

“I faced a five years of being imprisoned in the past, even then I did not issue such an abusive statement against anyone,” the Prime Minister added. SAMAA

Pervez Musharraf enters politics

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LONDON: Former president of Pakistan General (retd.) Pervez Musharraf, today announced to begin his political career with All Pakistan Muslim League here in a press conference.

“I don’t see any political party in the country that can bring a change in the lives of common people. Therefore, I decided to begin my political career with All Pakistan Muslim League.”

“I accept my mistakes and assure not to repeat errors of the past.”

AGENCIES ADD: Former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf vowed Friday to return to politics as he launched a new party in London, where he has spent the past two years in self-imposed exile.

Speaking at a packed press conference, the retired general said the All Pakistan Muslim League would be a party of “national salvation” for Pakistan.

“The time has come to make Pakistan into a progressive,

Musharraf to launch his party today

Former President Pervez Musharraf is likely to launch his party All Pakistan Muslim League today in London.
Nearly 200-250 party officials and journalists will attend the launching ceremony. Pervez Musharraf will announce objectives of party, party policy and future priorities. He will also answer the queries of journalists on this occasion.

Musharraf to return from exile as ‘saviour’ of Pakistan

LONDON: Former military ruler Pervez Musharraf said that he never saw himself as a dictator, even though people called him that, but now he would be a politician on normal terms after his return to the country.

“The people have reached the end of their hopes, and I want to try to rekindle their faith in both themselves and Pakistan itself. It would be better to try and fail rather than not to try at all,” Musharraf told The Sunday Telegraph in an interview last week.

“I am very comfortable travelling around the world on lectures, but I am going into politics for the greater cause of Pakistan.”

As the military ruler of Pakistan in the turbulent period after 9/11, former president Pervez Musharraf has no shortage of ideas on how to fight extremists and pacify both his homeland and neighbouring Afghanistan.

Now the former general is about put his

All donated money to be spent on flood affectees: Musharraf

Former president Gen (R) Pervez Musharraf said that Pakistan was facing challenge of extremism and there was need to make people aware about this monster.
Talking in the Telethon Transmission of Dunya News arranged for collecting funds for the rehabilitation of flood affectees, Pervez Musharraf said that all the money donated by the well-to-do would be spent on flood affectees. He said that it was the governments responsibility to work for the betterment of citizens. He said that he will come back and contest elections.

Musharraf sees a chance of becoming next PM / President of PAKISTAN

Pervez Musharraf thinks he has a good chance of winning the next presidential election. He says he is not confident of victory, but its better to try and fail to lift the darkness enveloping the nation than to make no effort.
The ex-president told BBC News in an interview that he wants to help the country regain its self-confidence, saying Pakistan is in a pathetic situation. When asked if he is confident of becoming the next president of Pakistan, Musharraf replied: No I can’t be assured, I can’t be confident, but I believe there is a good chance of my winning on the political scene. I haven’t decided whether I’m going to be president or anything, but however, winning first of all in the next election is the issue.

When asked about fears that money donated towards flood relief in Pakistan might end up lost in corruption, he said: There is corruption in Pakistan, there is no doubt about it, it is heartbreaking how people are not bothered about the country. They have a lot of money and yet they are corrupt.

Musharraf said the advice to the donors he would like to give is that they ought to be careful on who they are giving the money to. One thing that I would like to advise when you give your money, a donor or an organization getting the money, it’s good that they show so many hundred thousand dollars collected but we should ask how much is going to the people?, he said.

Why dictators escape accountability: PM

MULTAN: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said, every political government faces corruption allegations and questioned why the military dictators Ayub Khan, Zia-ul-Haq and Pervez Musharraf were not made accountable for their misdeeds.

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Gilani says he restored deposed judges

BRUSSELS: Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani on Thursday claimed that the judges deposed by former military ruler Pervez Musharraf were restored by his executive order, and not by the Long March.

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