Thanks but I am not a fool, Musharraf tells Pak govt
29 Dec 2013 9:33 PM GMT
‘Thank you very much but don’t try to fool people,’ Aasia Ishaque, Musharraf’s spokesperson, said when she was asked about his reaction to the offer made by the government on Friday. The government said it was willing to bring Musharraf’s 95-year-old ailing mother from Dubai in a special aircraft or an air ambulance as a humanitarian gesture so that the two could be reunited. The government also offered to provide her medical treatment.
‘The government is trying to fool the people of this country. Musharraf has enough resources to bring back his mother if her health permits,’ Ishaque said. ‘The offer clearly shows that the government now knows that Musharraf is not going to run away despite all the pressure.’ Advising the government to ‘concentrate on the miseries of the people’, she said Musharraf will remain in Pakistan and fight ‘politically motivated’ cases against him.
The 70-year-old former army chief, who is facing a plethora of cases, cannot travel abroad as he is included in the Interior Ministry’s Exit Control List (ECL).
Musharraf’s petition to have his name removed from the ECL, so that he could fly to Dubai to visit his mother, was rejected by the Sindh High Court.
‘The government is trying to fool the people of this country. Musharraf has enough resources to bring back his mother if her health permits,’ Ishaque said. ‘The offer clearly shows that the government now knows that Musharraf is not going to run away despite all the pressure.’ Advising the government to ‘concentrate on the miseries of the people’, she said Musharraf will remain in Pakistan and fight ‘politically motivated’ cases against him.
The 70-year-old former army chief, who is facing a plethora of cases, cannot travel abroad as he is included in the Interior Ministry’s Exit Control List (ECL).
Musharraf’s petition to have his name removed from the ECL, so that he could fly to Dubai to visit his mother, was rejected by the Sindh High Court.
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