Serious allegations: Retired army officer files complaint against Musharraf

Says ex-president guilty of mass murder and massive corruption.

ISLAMABAD:

Accusing former president Musharraf of mass murder and massive corruption, a retired military officer filed a complaint with the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Wednesday, demanding action against Musharraf.

“Ex General Pervez Musharraf committed serious offences by suspending the Constitution twice, removing and detaining honourable judges of the superior courts, carrying out the massacre at Lal Masjid, giving the order of assassination of Nawab Akbar Bugti as well as masterminding a mass-murder on May 12, 2007 in Karachi,” Lt Col (retd) Inamul Rahiem said in a complaint filed with the NAB.

“Ex-general Pervez Musharraf not only violated his oath, being a public office holder…he illegally employed the state agencies with collaboration of foreign powers and abducted thousands of people and handed them over to a foreign power for monetary gains with  criminal intent.”

Col Rahiem added that the retired general had already ‘confessed’ to his crimes in his book In the Line of Fire. He cited page 237 of the book, where Musharraf writes: “after 9/11, when many members of al Qaeda fled Afghanistan and crossed the border into Pakistan, we have played cat and mouse with them…we have caught many, many others. Some are known to the world, some are not known. We have captured 689 and handed over 369 to the United States. We have earned bounties totaling million of dollars”.

Rahiem questioned what procedure was adopted in handing them over, and how much money Musharraf received for it.

Raheim also asked that all of Musharraf’s moveable and immovable assets be frozen, accusing him of embezzling billions of rupees.

“Musharraf injected corruption into the senior hierarchy of the armed forces by allotting them plots above their entitlements… he allotted more than 85 commercial and residential plots to General (retd) Yousaf, his then Vice Chief of Army Staff,”  Rahiem wrote to NAB Chief Admiral (retd) Fasih Bokhari.

Rahiem also claimed that Musharraf illegally allotted himself various residential and commercial plots as well as huge tracts of land without any entitlement.

When contacted, All Pakistan Muslim League’s Information Secretary, Aasia Ishaq said, “General Musharraf is already facing courts in various cases. Let the courts decide the cases filed against him,” she said.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 4^th, 2013.