Islamabad: Pakistan's former president Pervez Musharraf lambasted
former prime minister Nawaz Sharif in a television interview aired on
Friday , branding him a "liar" and accusing him of maligning the army.
In the interview with ARY channel, he said Nawaz Sharif was suffering from "paranoia" and that was why he "speaks against me day and night."
"He is a compulsive liar," said the former military ruler, who had
toppled Sharif's government and seized power in October 1999 in a
bloodless coup and sent him into exile in 2000 for a decade.
Musharraf claimed that as prime minister, Sharif had agreed to a
"sell out" on Kashmir issue during the visit in February 1999 of then
Indian prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee to Lahore.
He
ridiculed Sharif for taking credit for the nuclear weapon tests
conducted by Pakistan in May 1998 in a response to similar tests
earlier by rival India.
"Nawaz Sharif was against conducting the tests but agreed under pressure from others," he said, wihout identifying who exerted the pressure.
"Nawaz Sharif was against conducting the tests but agreed under pressure from others," he said, wihout identifying who exerted the pressure.
Musharraf, who has been living in self-imposed exile since leaving
Pakistan in 2008 and has formed his own political party under the name
of All Pakistan Muslim League, also answered questions about the May 2
US operation that killed Osama Bin Laden on Pakistani soil.
He said it was wrong that questions raised by the operation were not
answered with promptness. For three days after the incident no one from
the government or the military spoke on the matter and "this silence
was a wrong strategy."
Musharraf voiced skepiticism about the claim that Bin Laden had been
living in the garrison town of Abbottabad for five years, saying it
"does not logically appeal to me that he was there for all these years." (Gulf News)
