KARACHI: Former president and Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari on Wednesday asserted that ex-ISI chief and incumbent Peshawar Corps Commander Lt Gen Faiz Hameed has been sidelined.”
“That poor man [Faiz Hameed] has been sidelined,” the PPP co-chairman said while addressing a press conference at Chief Minister House, Karachi.
Talking about the no-confidence vote that led to the ouster of former prime minister Imran Khan, Zardari said it was “good to know that the army can remain neutral”. He expressed the hope that the army would continue to be “apolitical” and any problems that arose could be solved by national representatives.
Talking about the judiciary, which has been criticised by PTI chairman Imran, Zardari said he had never run a campaign against them. “Former military ruler Pervez Musharraf kept me in jail for five years but we did not attack his house,” he said.
“I have said internationally, I want to see Musharraf alive. I think we should let the institution do its work and help them,” the former president added.
He alleged that the bureaucracy had been destroyed during the PTI government’s tenure and relations with other countries were “not even present”, which the incumbent government would try to improve.
He slammed Imran for labelling his opponents as Mir Jafars and Mir Sadiqs. “If anyone can run the country, it is us, not him. His own friends left him because PTI could not fulfil their political commitments,” he claimed.
