KARACHI:
Former military ruler General (retd) Pervez Musharraf on Saturday called for sifting the pawns from the more potent forces on Karachi’s political chessboard in the effort to bring peace to the violence-wracked city.
Musharraf also said that the time had come to identify the real players and end the violence in Karachi. “We need a leader to catch the big fish and bring them to justice.”
“They [Saulat Mirza and Uzair Baloch] are just pawns in the big game who play for others and get killed,” the former president said when asked if he knew who Saulat Mirza and Uzair Baloch were. He was talking to anchorperson Gharida Farooqi on the Express News show ‘G for Gharida’ on Saturday.
Instead of targeting any single person, Musharraf said, people need “to take a broader view of the situation and question all the corrupt people”.
He claimed he had never heard about the Saulat Mirza case in his tenure, because he was running a country and such cases never came up before him.
At the same time, the ex-military chief refuted all rumours of him joining the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM). He did however admit that there were recent meetings between him and MQM leaders, but he described the contacts as mere “courtesy calls”. “We talked about a lot of things, even politics, but that’s it.”
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