DOES THE GHQ HIGH COMMAND CONSIDER GENERAL PERVEZ MUSHARRAF A SECURITY RISK? ALTAF HUSSAIN
Karachi -- 25
December 2001
The MQM Founder and Leader Mr Altaf Hussain questioned the GHQ
High Command in Pakistan whether they lost confidence in their
COAS Gen. Pervez Musharraf? Do they consider him a security
risk for the country? Is that the reason why Pervez
Musharraf did not attend the crucial meeting on the countrys
defence issues? Mr Altaf Hussain was addressing a large
gathering of MQM Medical Aid Committee, Para-medical staff,
members of MQM Co-ordination Committee and workers of the MQM.
Mr Altaf Hussain pointed out that todays newspapers contain
a news report that a very important meeting of the Joint Staff
Committee was held to consider the countrys defence
strategy but the COAS General Pervez Musharraf did not
participate in the meeting. According to the report Gen.
Pervez Musharraf did not participate so that in his absence the
commanders could discuss all the issues freely without feeling
any pressure. Mr Altaf Husssain said that he finds the
absence of the COAS from a meeting where crucial matters about
the nations defences are being discussed as inconceivable. He
asked whether the presence of the COAS could ever be considered a
cause of pressure upon the commanders? He asked the GHQ
High Command to inform the people of Pakistan whether there had
been an occasion in the 54-year history of the country when the
GHQ conducted their meetings on crucial defence matters without
the participation of the COAS when he is present in Rawalpindi.
Mr Altaf Hussain further asked the GHQ High command whether the
positions of Gen Pervez Musharraf and Retired General Moin Haider
have become purely ceremonial?