MULTAN, Pakistan (AFP) – President Pervez Musharraf said Saturday that Pakistan’s powerful army was not “distancing” itself from him following the defeat of his political allies in elections last month.
President Pervez Musharraf said Saturday that Pakistan’s powerful army was not “distancing” itself from him following the defeat of his political allies in elections last month.(AFP/File/John Thys)
Musharraf, who seized power in a coup in 1999 and stepped down as army chief in November last year, said claims of a rift between him and the military were being spread by people trying to destabilise the nuclear-armed nation.
“It is absolutely wrong that the army is distancing itself from me. There is no truth in it,” Musharraf said at the inauguration of a state television station in the central city of Multan.
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