‘Millionaires’ Musharraf and Aziz are “true politicians” when it comes to “cheap gifts”!

September 7th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Former President Pervez Musharraf has said that he will soon return to Pakistan to be among the people of the country. Talking to a delegation in London led by Pakistan Muslim League (Q) leader Amir Muqam, Musharraf called for unity between two factions of the PML-Q.

September 5th, 2009 JEDDAH - Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz has invited Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz chief Nawaz Sharif and Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry to discuss Pakistan's political situation and the issue of former president Pervez Musharraf's trial, the Online news agency reported Saturday. Sources said that Sharif and Chaudhry would go to Saudi Arabia this month to meet King Abdullah, who has also urged Musharraf to avoid taking any step which may vitiate the political climate in Pakistan Musharraf said in London that the Saudi king was worried over the prevailing situation in Pakistan, and wanted the political leadership to demonstrate maturity and responsibility and take steps for the country's development.

September 1st, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik, who recently visited Saudi Arabia, has categorically denied meeting former President Pervez Musharraf. There were reports that Musharraf was in Saudi Arabia and Malik had met him there.

August 26th, 2009 LAHORE - Senior Pakistan Muslim League -Quaid (PML-Q) leader Humayun Akhtar has described former Pakistan President General Pervez Musahrraf as a person 'completely divorced from ground realities'. Akhtar, who recently met Musharraf over dinner during his brief stay in London, found Musharraf angry, frustrated and isolated figure who was completely divorced from the ground realities According to sources, Musharraf believes that he does not have much public support in Pakistan and is scared of the Pakistan Muslim League -Nawaz (PML-N) chief coming to power.

August 26th, 2009 QUETTA - Slain Baloch leader Nawab Akbar Bugti's son, Jamil Akbar Bugti has filed a petition in the Sibbi District and Sessions Court seeking a court order to register a case against former President General Pervez Musharraf and other senior officials in connection with his father's death. Jamil Bugti, in his petition, has accused Musharraf and his associates of murdering Akbar Bugti.

August 25th, 2009 LAHORE - Former Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf has said he would return to Pakistan soon and initiate talks with country's political leaders. "I will soon return to Pakistan and begin consultations with political leaders of the country," The Daily Times quoted Musharraf, as saying.

August 15th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Former Pakistan Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has rejected former President General Pervez Musharraf's claims that he had discussed the November 3, 2007 action of removing judges of the superior judiciary with him (Aziz). "I had neither advised Musharraf nor had taken part in any consultation process that led to the ousted Musharraf's decision to abrogate the Constitution on Nov 3, 2007," sources close to Aziz said.

August 3rd, 2009 LAHORE - Former president Pervez Musharraf never took his cabinet into confidence on several key issues, including the war on terror, the Lal Masjid operation, restrictions on media, the judicial crisis and the army operation against Nawab Akbar Bugti, PML-Q dissident group leader Humayun Akhtar Khan has said. Appearing in the television programme, Najam Sethi Special, he said that the cabinet did not endorse most of Musharraf's executive decisions.

August 3rd, 2009 LAHORE - Pakistan's former Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has said that politics is not for everyone, adding that he would never become a politician. Aziz said several people had offered him a ticket to contest the 2008 general elections, but he had decided against participating on his family's insistence.

August 1st, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Former Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf may be heading former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's way as far as taking refuge outside the country is concerned. Saudi Arabia's Ambassador to Pakistan Abdul Aziz Bin Ibrahim said that his country would consider giving political asylum to Musharraf if he asks for it, The Daily Times reports.

May 26th, 2009 LAHORE - Former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has said that extremism poses the biggest threat to Pakistan. In an interview to a private TV channel, Musharraf claimed that Islamabad has taken several steps to thwart extremism, and criticism in this regard was baseless.

April 20th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Former Pakistan President General (r) Pervez Musharraf has claimed that no child or woman was killed in the controversial military operation conducted in Lal Masjid in 2007. "It is time to end the lies.

April 20th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Former Pakistan President General (r) Pervez Musharraf has said that the United States should not attach any preconditions to its anti-terror aid to Pakistan. The Daily Times quoted Musharraf, as saying that the armed forces and the Pakistan Government should jointly devise a strategy to fight terrorists in the country.

April 19th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf Sunday said 'the country is in great danger', and added that the people should not get bogged down by minor issues and focus on bigger challenges. 'Pervez Musharraf said that the country was in great danger and advised all to shun looking into the past,' the News International reported Sunday.

March 24th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Within six months of his resignation and being declared one of the most hated men in Pakistan, former President Pervez Musharraf spent Pakistan Day participating in a bridge tournament at the Islamabad Club, in a setting of almost no special security. Oblivious of the tensions and insecurity that his 10-year term of power have unleashed on the rest of the nation, the former dictator was relaxed, enjoying the company of his friends, playing cards and exchanging jokes.