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Musharraf says he is no traitor
Islamabad, Sept 11: Rejecting that he was a `traitor` as contained in a tape purportedly from al-Qaeda terror network, Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf today said he was doing his best to fight terrorism.
Islamabad, Sept 11: Rejecting that he was a "traitor" as contained in a tape purportedly from al-Qaeda terror network, Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf today said he was doing his best to fight terrorism.
Appearing on an interactive programme of the BBC website, Musharraf said his government was cracking down on Islamic religious schools, which are seen as a breeding ground for Islamic militancy.
Some madrassas and mosques were being "misused" to spread religious and sectarian hatred, he said. "I am sure we will meet success." He said that Pakistani authorities have done their best to capture al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden and his associates, who he thought was somewhere along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.
He was responding to a tape purportedly from al-Qaeda shown on al-Jazeera television, in which a man purportedly to be the network's number two, Ayman al-Zawari, described Musharraf as a "traitor" and asked Pakistanis to rise up against him.
"Until when will you put up with the traitor Musharraf, who sold the Muslims' blood in Afghanistan and handed over the Arab Mujahideen to crusader America? "Had it not been his treason, the surrogate government would not have been installed in Kabul, that government which brought the Indians to Pakistan's western borders," the speaker said on the eve of the second anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks on US.
Bureau Report
Some madrassas and mosques were being "misused" to spread religious and sectarian hatred, he said. "I am sure we will meet success." He said that Pakistani authorities have done their best to capture al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden and his associates, who he thought was somewhere along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.
He was responding to a tape purportedly from al-Qaeda shown on al-Jazeera television, in which a man purportedly to be the network's number two, Ayman al-Zawari, described Musharraf as a "traitor" and asked Pakistanis to rise up against him.
"Until when will you put up with the traitor Musharraf, who sold the Muslims' blood in Afghanistan and handed over the Arab Mujahideen to crusader America? "Had it not been his treason, the surrogate government would not have been installed in Kabul, that government which brought the Indians to Pakistan's western borders," the speaker said on the eve of the second anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks on US.
Bureau Report