Armed forces being maligned under conspiracy: Musharraf
Updated at: 1910 PST, Monday, February 16, 2009
Armed forces being maligned under conspiracy: Musharraf ISLAMABAD: Former president Pervez Musharraf Monday clarified that he never said that security of Ms. Benazir Bhutto was dependent on her relations with him.
I never told Ms. Benazir Bhutto that her security was dependent on her relations with me, he clarified while talking to media here. I can never utter such cheap words, he added.
He referred to a book authored by a foreign writer David E Sanger, saying: I dont know what the writer was trying to prove but what he has written is far from the fact and completely distorted. May be he was trying to create sensation.
Pervez Musharraf pointing to the author said: You must show some character.
The allegations being leveled against the armed forces and intelligence agencies of the country will lead to the defeat in war on terror, he feared.
The former president said attempts are being made under a conspiracy to malign the armed forces.
He said no deal was made with the Taliban during his rule. He said Pakistan remained committed to fighting the war on terror for eight years and asked as to why nobody took notice of such an allegation during that time.
Pervez Musharraf said names of those Pakistanis who are involved in terrorist activities should not be concealed.
He said the maximum number of people who were martyred in war against terrorism is that of army men.
A strict eye must be kept on institutions that are undermining others, he said.
To a question regarding Swat accord, Pervez Musharraf said the government is doing what it deems fit.