Adil Najam
Following the targeting to Aaj TV station during the May 12 riots in Karachi, Gen. Pervez Musharraf gave an exclusive long interview to Talat Hussain and Aaj, much like he had given an interview to Geo after the attack on Geo. Here is a how it went.
Thanks to Saad for putting this on YouTube and sharing.
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He is really saying that Karachi is a no-go MQM area.
I am shocked to hear these words from our President/COAS.
He sounds increasingly hollow. Pretty much a windbag. It’s all about I, Me, Myself incorporated.
Thanks for posting the interview on ATP:
Overall this interview was better than that of Geo TV as Kamran Khan was facilitating what Gen. Musharraf was missing. I liked the first part of interview in which Talat asked some hard questions.
It seems Gen. Musharraf hardly believes in political process and I am scared that nation will have to pay the heavy price of this haughty attitude.
It will be great to see Talat on HDF Convention in Chicago.
If you have high speech connection, try this….
Open the full post, and SIMULTANESOULY play all the seven clips together.
Now sit back and listen. He will make much more sense… and funny too :-)
I honestly think that Musharraf is worse than Mugabe or Saddam. I know it sounds like a stretch, but at least they made no pretenses about who they are.
Really Musharraf is no better than them (I am shocked beyond words that he actually thinks the brazen killing of 40 people is an appropriate political response). The difference is he doesn’t want to be seen as the political thug (“I had nothing to do with the Islamabad rally – I have better things to do”) and the tyrannical dictator he has become (just look at the merciless execution of Hammad Raza, harassment of the CJ, arrest of DIG Salimullah and the state perpetrated violence in Karachi and in general against lawyers and the media).
He wants to be seen as a straight talking General who is trying to do the right thing, but is being dragged into the dirty world of politics by those who are against the national interest of Pakistan.
I really commend the Pakistani media for reporting with the resilience that they have shown (and I particularly admire Talat), but I just wish that they were a bit more challenging to Musharraf when they interview him. I always feel these interviews somehow just become another platform for him spin the truth without being adequately questioned in return.