Army takeover possible: Pervez Court rejects papers
Furnished by Malik
London, July 2: Claiming that Pakistan was being run to the ground, the country’s former military ruler Pervez Musharraf has not ruled out a fresh military takeover of the nation.
“The state is being run to the ground at the moment, and people are again running to the military to save the country,” Musharraf told a gathering at Aspen, Colorado in the US.
While he maintained that Pakistan’s constitution was “sacrosanct”, the former dictator also questioned, “Should we save the country, and do something unconstitutional or uphold the constitution of the country, and let the state go down?”
The comments from the former General, who still retains close ties to the military back home, came as Pakistan is in throes of a political crisis with friction between the executive, judiciary and the military.
— PTI Rehman Malik, Special Advisor to the Pakistan Prime Minister on interior affairs, on Monday failed to provide documents proving he has renounced his British nationality to the Supreme Court, which was hearing a petition against lawmakers holding dual citizenship. A three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry rejected several documents submitted by Malik’s counsel Anwar Mansur and directed him to produce a declaration issued by the UK Border Agency regarding the renunciation of his British citizenship. Malik’s counsel produced his passport, issued in 2008, and said that if Malik had been a British national, he would have not been travelling on a Pakistani passport. The counsel then informed the bench that these documents were not available.