Pakistan

Hitting back: Face trial if you're brave enough, Zardari tells Musharraf

The former army chief had accused the PPP co-chairman of plotting the assassination of Benazir and Murtaza Bhutto

News Desk September 22, 2017

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In response to General (retd) Pervez Musharraf’s accusations, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Co-chairperson Asif Ali Zardari has advised him to return to the country and face the courts if he is “brave enough”.

“Me and Benazir Bhutto were blamed [by Musharraf] for Murtaza Bhutto’s murder,” Zardari said while addressing media-persons in Kamalia, Punjab on Friday. “History is full of such accusations.”

“Politics of accusation is decade-long… if Musharraf is courageous enough, he must appear before the courts,” he said in a reply to the military dictator, who had accused him of plotting the assassination of Benazir and Murtaza.

Zardari plotted assassination of Benazir, Murtaza Bhutto: Musharraf

Referring to the deposed prime minister Nawaz Sharif, the former president said: “Sharif is incapable of ruling the country aptly.”

Finance Minister Ishaq Dar, he added, “has fled leaving the country in economic crisis”.

Zardari said, “NA-120 by-election cannot be the barometer to predict the ruling party’s capability. Neither the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz nor the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf has done anything for the constituency.”

The PML-N was able to bag votes only after spending billions of rupees on electioneering within a month, he alleged.

COMMENTS (2)

Sodomite | 7 years ago | Reply Zardari is right. Let the Commando General come and face the courts instead of running away as he did.

MSH | 7 years ago | Reply Look who is talking ?You did not hire Latif Khoosa to fight BeNazir murder Case for 5 years ,but used his services day and night to free Ayan Ali and Dr Asim. Mr Zardari , not only you but your entire family and selected members of PPP enjoyed the fruit of Benazir murder.

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