Musharraf’s claim nothing but wishful thinking: Farhatullah Babar

ISLAMABAD: Spokesperson to the President former Senator Farhatullah Babar on Friday dismissed as “wishful philosophy” former President Pervez Musharraf’s claim that Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto wanted him to continue as president.In a rejoinder to an interview by former armed ruler to an Indian channel, Babar said, “it is wishful thinking of a mortified dictator who has been shunted out of the Presidency in full community view and who is now seeking a assess of public support to escape the fate that awaits all dictators.” He said that Musharraf’s assertion has proved Mohtarma Bhutto’s prophetic prediction made for the duration of a meeting in the last months of her life that “a day will come when Musharraf will beg for my pictures to sustain himself”. Farhatullah Babar, who had also been spokesperson to Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto for nearly two decades, said that what the late leader thought of the dictator is graphically described in her two books; “Daughter of the East” and “Reconciliation” besides countless interviews. He said Musharraf should interpret her books and the comments she publicly made about him in the interviews. “He must stand erect on his own feet and face the penalty of his misdeeds rather than seeking shelter behind the name and pictures of Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto whom he chased and hound when in authority as all tin pot dictators do to the leaders of the masses,” he said. “It should be remembered that while he was still holding the coercive apparatus of the state in his hands the PPP first hooted down Musharraf in all the provincial assembly and the national parliament through unanimous resolutions and then actually booted him out of the President House in full public view”. Farhatullah Babar said Musharraf has only ridiculed himself by asserting that the leader and Chairperson of the Party that hooted and booted him out wanted him to continue as the President of the country. “It is not the act of a commando; it is the act of those who have feet of clay. But then such is the fate of dictators and despot who fall not only from the stronghold of power but also in the eyes of the people,” he said.

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