PERVEZ MUSHARRAF STOLE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS FROM U.S. AID TO PAKISTAN:
PPP
http://www.bbc. co.uk/urdu/ pakistan/ story/2008/ 08/080810_ ex-servicemen_ presser_fz. shtml
Publisher: The Sunday Times - London, UK
Where's the Money?
Benazir Bhutto's widower is accusing [illegal] President Musharraf of siphoning off millions from [U.S.] aid intended to support [unlawful, fraudulent] war of terror. By Christina Lamb
Islamabad, Pakistan, 10 August 2008 (The Sunday Times) - The embattled
[unconstitutional, illegal, unlawful, illegitimate, self-appointed,
evil, criminal, outlaw, terrorist, traitorous] president of Pakistan,
Pervez Musharraf, has been dealt his latest and most serious blow with
the accusation from the leader of the [PPP] ruling party that he
misappropriated hundreds of millions of dollars of American aid given
for supporting the [illegal, fraudulent] war of terror.
[PPP Co-Chairman] Asif Ali Zardari, who took over the Pakistan
People's party (PPP) after his wife Benazir Bhutto was assassinated in
December last year, made the charge in an interview with The Sunday
Times.
He also detailed for the first time Musharraf's attempts to sabotage
his [PPP] government which, he says, forced him to take the drastic
step of demanding his impeachment.
"Our grand old Musharraf has not been passing on all the $ 1 billion
[£ 520m] a year that the Americans have been giving for the [Pakistan]
armed forces," he claimed. "The [Pakistan] Army has been getting $
250m - $ 300m reimbursement for what they do, but where is the rest?
"They claim it's been going in budget support but that's not the
answer. We are talking about $ 700m a year missing. The rest has been
taken by 'Mush' [Pervez Musharraf] for some scheme or other and we
have got to find it."
The alleged misappropriation will form a key part of the charge
against Musharraf to be announced tomorrow when Parliament is recalled
to start impeachment proceedings.
The move has sparked panic in Whitehall and Washington where the
nuclear-armed Pakistan is increasingly seen as a far greater danger
than Iraq or Afghanistan.
In Pakistan, fear is mixed with widespread support among a public that
cannot understand why Musharraf remains as [unconstitutional]
president six months after elections in which his own [PML-Q] party
was dealt a humiliating defeat.
Accusing Musharraf of mis-using funds is a rare pleasure for the 54-
year-old Zardari, whose own name became a byword for corruption during
his wife's first government in 1988-90. He spent 11 years in jail on
[false, fabricated and malicious] charges for which he was never
convicted.
Zardari claims the American aid may have gone to fund rogue members of
the military intelligence, the [Pakistan Army's] ISI [Inter-Services
Intelligence] , who were last week accused by Washington of assisting
[ficticious] Taliban and jihadi groups rather than rooting them out.
"We are looking for the money," he said. "I think he [Musharraf] has a
slush fund being used for this and for some activity for the future."
Zardari also accused the [illegal] president of economic sabotage and
fomenting conflict in Baluchistan and the tribal areas. "They laid so
many mines for us," he said.
"They spent all the money so we would have to borrow; they did not
pass on the increased price of oil; nor added a single extra megawatt
of power in the last 10 years. All these things were deliberately
thought out so at the end of day they can turn round and tell the
world, 'Look, democracy doesn't deliver', and step back in."
Zardari was speaking from the house in Islamabad from where [Benazir]
Bhutto set off for her last rally. Her assassination turned him from
an ostracised figure, blamed by many for her double dismissal from
office, to a grieving widower and the country's most powerful
politician.
The road outside is manned by police and his house is guarded by his
own protection team of men in black. "I know I am in danger," he said.
"Whoever killed her wants to kill me." Inside, the living room is
dominated by a life-size picture of [Benazir] Bhutto from that day,
garlanded with rose petals and hands raised as she addresses the
crowds in Rawalpindi.
Minutes later, as she popped up from the sunroof to wave, she was
murdered.
"She is all around me, I live with her," Zardari said. "I have not
touched one thing in her bedroom, her manuscript [of her last book] is
lying on her side and I sleep on my side."
Gesturing at her last photograph, he said: "I think she is looking at
us now and saying: 'Now tell me, Asif, do you think it's easy'?" On
the wall of the dining room is a framed copy of her handwritten will
naming him as her successor. It is dated October 16 [2007], just two
days before she returned to Pakistan after 8 1/2 years in exile.
It left Zardari as kingmaker but, although the PPP emerged as the
largest party, its lack of a majority forced it into a coalition with
[Benazir] Bhutto's long-time rival [Muhammad] Nawaz Sharif, leader of
the [Pakistan] Muslim League [PML-N].
Sharif's price for his support was the removal of Musharraf, who
ousted him as Prime Minister in his 1999 [illegal] coup. He also
wanted restoration of the judges who were sacked when Musharraf
[illegally] declared a state of [unlawful] emergency last November.
Last Tuesday Sharif told Zardari that he would withdraw his support
for the coalition unless the [unlawful] president was removed. The
following night the impeachment plan was announced at a joint press
conference. It follows criticism by the United States during the [PPP]
government's trip to Washington 10 days ago for failing to rein in the
intelligence services still supporting the [imaginary] Taliban.
"To say we are responsible for the country, yes we are, but first get
your role model [Pervez Musharraf] out of the way, remove your most
allied of allies," said Zardari. "They [Bush-Cheney Junta] have had
Musharraf there 10 years, instead of bringing these issues up with him
they are trying to bring them up with us today."
In the meantime the impending impeachment battle has plunged Pakistan
into further instability. Zardari said he had been left with no option
after Musharraf refused to accept an honourable exit.
"The offer was on the table that you walk and you don't get
prosecuted, but I have had no returns so have had no choice but to go
along with my [PML-N] partner's [M. Nawaz Sharif's] more aggressive
stance," he said.
Musharraf has made it clear that he will fight any such effort. "I am
not afraid; I have not learnt fear," he said in a speech. It is still
unclear whether Zardari and Sharif can muster the two-thirds of both
houses needed to unseat him. In the meantime, Musharraf still has the
[illegal] power to dissolve Parliament.
Zardari warned against such a move, saying: "If he does it, it will be
his last verdict against the people, the people's mandate and against
Pakistan."
Blood Honour
The widower of Benazir Bhutto and their three children are preserving
her bedroom in their Dubai [UAE] home as a shrine and have pledged to
give blood in her memory at every birthday and anniversary of her
death.
"Our bedroom in Dubai has been locked and I sleep in the next room
because the children and I don't want to lose her scent in the room,"
said Asif Ali Zardari.
Zardari wants to turn the house in Karachi he gave her as a wedding
present into a museum in her memory. [Benazir] Bhutto left it in her
will to their son Bilawal, so father and son are in negotiations.
Up to 70 Percent of U.S. Aid to Pakistan 'Misspent'
http://www.guardian .co.uk/world/ 2008/feb/ 27/pakistan. usa/print
U.S. Aid is U.S. AIDS: http://www.usaid. gov/pk
Copyright 2008 Times Newspapers Ltd.
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