Pervez Musharraf is not Pakistan Army
By Rohail Butt • May 29th, 2009 • Category: Politics • 13 CommentsMusharraf has gone and gone for good. Pakistan Army stays here. Musharraf doesn’t define or represent this institution of Pakistan. Now after the departure of the Musharraf, people have understood very clearly and vividly that they never hated their army, they always abhorred the evil Musharraf.
Musharraf damaged literally every institution and foundation of this country and Pakistan Army is no exception. People stopped revering their heroes. Earlier children and people used to stop to watch the passing army convoys. People offered soldiers their laurels, salutes and gratitude. People considered it an ultra-pride to share meals with the soldiers and to sit with them. Parade of 23rd March oozed love and pride. Musharraf altered all that.
But now as the Army is busy in clearing up the mess in Malakand, Swat, Balochistan created by the Musharraf and his cronies, people have once again chanting slogans in the favor of our beloved and very great army. People still hate Musharraf, but they still love their army.
Pakistan Army Zindabad.
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you are wrong he is more popular than the president who only enjoys 19% popular rating. Bring back Musharraf and he will clean the mess.
Brother Rohail Butt,
Reading your blog abt Musharaf unveild great consiparcies spread in Musharaf’s period, ok Musharaf was President of Pakistan in1973 When operation started in baluchistan and assembly was dissolved, Musharaf was President of Pakistan in 1996 when Taliban was created by some masterminds and a section of taliban.He was the president of Pakistan from 1989~1998 when Pakistan was in its worst economical crises, He was president of Pakistan when NAB was made and PTV was the only source of information, He was the president of Pakistan in 1971 when our half part was cutted, he was the President of Pakistan when supreme court was attacked by goons……………… ONCE AGAIN I APPRECTIATE MR.ROHAIL BUT ON TELLING US HE WAS THE WORST MAN IN HISTORY OF PAKISTAN.
Rohail,
Who told you Musharraf has gone for good. You too! STUPID.
There is another Rohail below but he is not BUTT
Here is why we stand with President Musharraf:
Islam protects every human life and as Muslims it becomes incumbent on us to do the same for minorities living within us.
It is why Quaid -e- Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah said the state has nothing to do with your religious belief but will protect all citizens of Pakistan.
Today we invoke the Islamic Belief as Muslims and reject the Taliban extremists creating rift and murder in the glorious name of Islam.
We want to make Pakistan an enlightened Muslim country which upholds the Ideals of Prophet Muhammad (pboh) and his soldiers like Jinnah,Iqbal,sir syed, and Musharraf and countless others who fought bigotry and blasphemy against Islam.
So we become the soldiers of Islam today and take it back from terrorists who use it to murder.
Background of why President Musharraf governed Pakistan
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The 1990’s was a lost decade for Pakistan, mismanagement at its helm and corruption rampant.
Formation of failed policies, coupled with sheer incompetence and lack of commitment, kept deteriorating the economy of the fragile Country.
Benazir’s era was further characterized by ungoverned manipulation and personal extravagance of her husband Zardari.
By 1999, not only were the $10 billion Foreign Reserves misspent without any accountability, but it also shattered the confidence of our nation. Expatriate Pakistanis kept a cautious outlook of the situation and held their foreign reserves back.
Nawaz Sharif and People’s Party often lament that during their tenures US and IMF Aid was suspended; and that President Musharraf’s government received huge aid after 9/11 to overcome the economic problems.
To set the record correct, USA and IMF aid was suspended only after the Nuclear Atomic blasts of May 1998, but that too was RESUMED later that year in November, a week before Nawaz met President Clinton in USA.
Before May 1998, the governments of Nawaz Sharif and Benazir Bhutto received worldwide aid and assistance from USA, IMF, OPEC, European countries, ODA & OOF bilateral agreements and World Bank.
The inheritance of the ailing economy that took place after October 1999 was not an easy task for the leadership of President Musharraf. Pakistan needed quick reforms, resource allocation, stabilization of policies and alluring back the Foreign Reserves and Foreign Direct Investment.
A misperception persists within some critics that attribute completely the turning around of Pakistan’s economy to: US aid or 9/11. Therefore, let it be clarified that major economic indicators had improved before 9/11, and the economy had already started showing signs of recovery and revival.
Therefore, the entire credit of stabilizing Pakistan’s economy goes to the visionary decisions, sustained macro-economic policies and financial reforms of President Musharraf and the Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz.
These also highlight their good intentions and ultimate honesty. Their sense of duty towards the country, honesty and the genuine resolve to address the problems does not arise from 9/11. Unlike their predecessors who swept problems under the carpet.
These figures by all means indicate the strength of Pakistan’s booming economy and establish the FACT that Pakistan is no more dependent upon US or foreign aid. Pakistan’s economy has managed to wriggle out of their clutches.
Acknowledgment & contributions by:
Economic Report by Mirza Rohail B
http://economicpakistan.wordpress.com
http://presidentmusharraf.wordpress.com/
AOM
sorry I dont like this repetition of copy paste procedures but sometimes we have to do some unwanted job in the line of duty.For your kind review,
Corrupt Musharraf’s Generals, Exposed by Musharraf’s Generals
By Shaheen Sehbai - The South Asia Tribune,
General Pervez Musharraf cannot, and does not, publicly claim that he has eliminated corruption altogether in Pakistan but he frequently boasts about cleaning up the top levels of his military cum civil administration.
Now his own trusted men are exposing these tall claims by pointing fingers and naming the military regime’s big guns who are turning out to be the really big thieves. A few most glaring examples:
When a prominent cabinet minister who was visiting Washington a few months back, revealed quietly to me and a friend, the horrifyingly ugly scale of land grabbing and fake land sale scams going on in Pakistan, especially in Punjab, we frankly did not believe him.
We thought the minister was trying to get even with his uniformed masters for not fulfilling the tall political promises made to him. But the magnitude of the scams was such that the minister genuinely felt concerned and wanted us to write about them, although as a politician he was not going to raise his voice publicly and was prepared to serve those very Generals in every top position.
The minister has now been proved right. Thanks to one of the more upright Generals in the present lot, the Corps Commander of Lahore, Lt. General Shahid Aziz, details of the massive land scams are emerging.
Our ministerial source says Corps Commander Aziz, has started a serious investigation against his predecessor, the last Corps Commander of Lahore, currently posted in the GHQ, Lt. General Zarrar Azim, known in the real estate world of Lahore as General Zarrar Zamin (land).
Early results of this fight between the top military bulls has revealed that General Zarrar was so deeply involved in the scam of Lahore Defence Society that in the price of every plot of land allotted in the society, a fee of Rs 600,000 (US$10,000) had to be built-in, almost automatically, meant for the Corps Commander’s office.
In this scam, it is now being found by the detectives of the new Corps Commander, that not only the out-going CC was involved, he was using a junior officer, Major Lodhi as a front man. This major is related to General Musharraf’s coup partner and now retired General Aziz of Kargil fame.
The details of these Defence Society scams are mind boggling. Thousands of plots of lands are designated in official files as Defence Society land and these plots are then sold and re-sold on files. More paper Housing Societies are registered and approved and they claim vast tracts of land without owning a square yard.
According to our source, in Lahore alone there are 12,000 files of plots for Sectors 7, 8, 9 and 10 for which there is no land actually available on the ground. How many thousands of more such plots have been sold is not yet known but the probe ordered by Lt. Gen. Aziz will bring out some facts.
According to a going joke in the Army Mess Circuit, the last request General Musharraf made to Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in Delhi was to give him 8,000 acres of land from the Indian territory across the Wagah-Atari border, 30 miles from Lahore, in return for Kashmir and Siachin, because “my boys have already sold this land in the files.”
Lahore is not the only Land of Land Scams. What has happened in Gwadar and Rawalpindi is of no less import.
The ministerial source said in the Bahria Town of Rawalpindi and Lahore, thousands of non-existent plots have been sold by the scheme managers. In Bahria Town of Lahore for 7,000 available plots 28,000 applications were accepted with deposits. But in Bahria Town Islamabad/Rawalpindi 77,000 plots have been sold which require land equivalent to 16 built-up sectors of Islamabad.
“What we are getting into is the Mother of all Scams because billions upon billions of people’s money has been collected by these project sponsors while there is no land to be allotted. How many of these buyers get back their deposits and when, is the 50 billion rupees question,” the source said.
Incidentally official records of the Ministry of Defence presented before the National Assembly show that Pakistan Army has Defence Housing Societies in Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad on an area of only 179,308 Kanals, or 22,500 acres. Pakistan Navy and Air Force have two housing societies each covering an area of 712 and 536 acres of land respectively.
Another of Musharraf’s top commanders, Lt Gen. Tariq Wasim Ghazi, former Corps Commander of Karachi became notoriously famous in Karachi for similar land scams in Defence Society, Karachi, including Creek City and allotment to two special people, Humayun Butt and Fareed Veerani. Who are these specials and what is their involvement is being investigated by South Asia Tribune and will be revealed soon.
The Gwadar land scam has already infuriated the Baloch leadership and one reason why they are so violent and non-compromising is how their mother land is being sold and resold to outsiders after it was fraudulently bought from them for peanuts. In Gwadar the Generals and their front men were quietly told to buy the land from locals much in advance of announcement of mega projects. Once this mopping up operation was completed, the projects were announced and trading of this real estate began, multiplying the prices by 20 or even 40 times.
The ministerial source said the bigger scandal in Gwadar has started just recently when Government has ordered all its banks and State-owned Corporations to buy land in Gwadar at market prices. Middlemen have already sold and resold these plots many times over to different parties to perk up the market price. “The tax payer will now end up paying the premium to these land mafias,” the source said.
In a much quieter operation in Lahore the City Government of Nazim (Mayor) Mian Amer Mahmood claimed on Sunday, April 24, that it had succeeded in vacating 3,000 kanals (375 acres) of land belonging to schools from a land mafia, but interestingly he did not name the mafia. Most of those who read the small story or who were present when the announcement was made understood who was involved.
While Corps Commanders of Musharraf are involved in perpetuating or dismantling these land scams, one of his pillars of accountability, the former head of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), Lt. General (Retd) Amjad Hussain was himself accused of massive corruption in the corporation he has been heading.
This charge of corruption was leveled in the National Assembly of Pakistan and involved the Fauji Foundation, undeniably the largest corporate body of Pakistan, now waiting to take over the largest public sector company, Pakistan State Oil.
The National Assembly was told last week that a high-level inquiry had been ordered against the management of the Fauji Foundation after detection of huge financial bunglings. General Amjad was facing the inquiry for selling a sugar mills in a non-transparent manner at less than the highest bid to a business enterprise which did not even participate in the bidding process.
The Assembly was told that the Khoski Sugar Mills was sold at Rs300 million against a previous bid of Rs387 million offered by a private party. Defence Minister Rao Sikandar ordered the inquiry to fix responsibility on those who violated the financial procedures and rules by going out of the way to benefit a favorite firm.
While the above details show that in-service Generals and Corps Commanders were being investigated for corruption, another officially announced corruption case was against the management of the South Asian Federation (SAF) Games, interestingly consisting of all military officers headed by Lt. General Arif Hassan.
The management of SAF Games has been found involved in financial irregularities to the tune of Rs201 million, which among other charges, include giving undue benefit to private organizations through “verbal agreements,” Daily Dawn said quoting an audit report .
The ninth SAF Games management included Chairman Lt. Gen. Arif Hassan, Chief of staff and chief coordinating officer Brig. Amjad Javaid, Information and media director Lt. Col. Syed Mujtaba Tirmizi, Administration Director Brig. Ahmad Riza Siddiqi, Communications Director Brig Abid Hussain Bhatti, Technical Director Lt. Col. (retired) Muhammad Yahya, Procurement Director Lt. Col. Mansoor Abbas, Information Technology Director Lt. Col. Umer Farooq, Finance and Marketing Director Lt. Col. Azhar Dean, Ceremonies Director Brig. Arif Rasul Qureshi, Protocol Director Brig. Khalid Rasheed Lodhi and Chief Engineer Lt. Col. Usman Saeed.
The question being asked in all relevant circles was that even to organize an sporting event, none of the very well qualified civilians was found to be suitable and from top to bottom all army men had been inducted as if it SAF Games were military exercises. And now these sacred cows have been found to be involved in irregularities and corruption.
In a military regime, obviously the Corps Commanders and senior Generals are the top level of Government and if scams and scandals involving these top men are officially exposed, some in the National Assembly and others by leaks to the media by his own people, how would General Musharraf explain his claims of eliminating top level corruption.
Rohail
You are right that Musharf is not Pakistan army but it is also true that our giant army kept him unlawfully for continuous 9 years as COAS.It was our corrupt political setup supported by army mafia that had given him life support as civilian dictator, there were thousands of opportunists on international stage who encircled and encouraged him for destabilizing the infrastructure of our country.
stoopid article.. hes the only true statesman that represents pakistan.. im proud to call him my leader n wish he comes back as paksitan’s leader… these days we shy away if some one asks is nawaz sharif yr leader ..zardari or altaf hussain… LONG LIVE MUSHARRAF.. n I pray he comes back
Pakistan Army is doing the same as it did in the time of Pervez Musharraf. Nothing has changed. Pervez Musharraf was also fighting against these terrorist as the present political setup.
Before it was all wrong. Now every action is patriotic.
Before military was killing our own people. Now it is only killing the terrorists.
Before high floor price was govt. scam. Today it is global inflation
Before POL prices were higher. Now these are according to world market
Previous govt. was corrupt. This government is facing corruption
Then judiciary was dishonest. Now it is ‘focussed’
Before it was one man show. Now there is only one ‘dedicated’ man.
Before Parliament was rubber stamp. Today it is always ‘unanimous’
Foreign tours at that time were wastage of money. Now they ‘fetch’ money
Last govt was a bunch of liars. Present ones are all ‘diplomats’
Last govt lost its public support. Now public should support all govt actions.
Meda was under target in the past. Presently it is being ‘disciplined’
Previously it was all undemocratic. Today everythng is the ‘beauty of democracy’.
Before there was Musharraf, today there is no Musharraf
and that is the difference……..
Well said Nasir, Nazia tau P A G A L Hey
AOM
you are the only wise man on this forum who is trying his best for last years to revive the hidden success of Musharf again and again through his copy paste skills.All went waste and ultimately he has to ruin away from his safe den to UK.The ultimate worldly heaven for our scared gallants.He was never afraid of any thing thing while he was living in 8 crore rupee monthly security plans and then left for safe heaven when war is started in our land due to his “sell and destroy” policy.
@Sister Nazia,
corruption is integral part of politics in third world countries, and it was West (Waste) who want democracy even in a dictatorship thus they pressurize to veil his dictatorship in democracy, that led to corruption.
Musharaf’s era was best if you compare it with 1989~1998. this you can accept. hopefully
Asad
corruption has become integral part of our system through military establishment In this world of open media it is very difficult to flourish corruption in an open way as people did before therefore you see that even Bangladesh and India are showing lot of improvement in their corruption scale.West buys our people and we call these people our leaders and messiahs.So i if one wants to make research on insult of humanity and patriotism,then he or she can study the political science of Pakistan for last 20 years.
Yes you are right as musharf in his first 15 months really showed us some signs of good management but the day he ordered chaudry of gujrat like leaders to follow him, there were start of unlucky days of Pakistan as this way he opened the dams of corruption to stick himself in power seat for treating his people as nation of batmen.
Musharraf was a great lead as President of Pakistan as well as Chief of Army Staff. At this stage you can seen the present situation of pakistan. I strongly support his decision on lauching operation in Lal Masjid, Waziristan, Swat and Balochistan. Why? If you people support their such activities Pakistan do not faced any problem. You thing that your political leader living in outcountry and they decide your future. Like Iltaf Bahi, Bugti Brotheran, Akhtar Mangal and lot. If they are intrested to come in country. Nawaz Sharif is also currupt