Raheel Sharif influenced govt over legal cases against me: Musharraf
The statement was made in an exclusive talk with Kamran Shahid in programme 'On the Front'
LAHORE (Web Desk) – Former president and army chief Pervez Musharraf has revealed on Monday that former chief of the army General (r) Raheel Sharif influenced the government to end legal cases against him.
In an exclusive talk with Kamran Shahid in programme ‘On the Front’, Musharraf asserted that the government was influenced by the army to end cases against him. He said that the judiciary was influenced by the government to have the cases ‘move’ in his favour.
The statement has come in weeks after General (r) Raheel Sharif was relieved from his services after completing a three-year tenure as the military leader and was succeeded by Chief of the Army Staff (COAS0 General Qamar Javed Bajwa.
Earlier in October, Musharraf had professed role of military in flying him off abroad while Supreme Court tried him for declaring state of emergency on November 3, 2007.
In an interview to The Atlantic in Washington DC, Musharraf had said that Pakistani social fabric was not made for democracy.
“Reasonably fair,” he replied when Robert Siegel, the interviewer asked him: “You are an army guy; the army looked after you. You were able to leave despite the government’s efforts to keep you there, fair (assumption)?”
“Army has always had a role since our independence (on August 14, 1947). Army has played a prominent role in the governance of Pakistan, partially, because, or mainly because of misgovernance by all of the so-called democratically elected governments,” the former dictator had said.
