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Musharraf wanted to publish his picture on currency notes of Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: General Pervez Musharraf wanted his image on Pakistani currency notes instead of the founder of the country Muhammad Ali Jinnah. Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali has revealed it during an interview with Geo TV station.

Jamali said, “The former President tried to print his photo on currency notes instead of Quiad-e-Azam (M A Jinnah), but I straight away refused that it could not happen.” Jamali said adding that he was of the belief that nobody could replace the founder of the nation.

Jamali disclosed that the former dictator had also committed Pakistani troops for Iraq to the US President George W Bush in Camp David in 2003, while giving the interview.

“When I met Bush in the White House I told him that I could not send troops to Iraq without informing the parliament. After a few days Musharraf decided to dissolve the parliament just for sending troops to Iraq,” said former PM.

The former PM also revealed that Musharraf was ready to handover the country’s nuclear scientist Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan to the US in 2004. He added that he had blocked the move even as an American plane had arrived in Islamabad for taking A Q Khan to the US.

Jamali claimed that he had also blocked the privatisation of Pakistan Steel Mills, National Bank of Pakistan and sale of Roosevelt Hotel in New York, owned by Pakistan International Airlines (PIA). He said these were the reasons of his differences with Musharraf.

Jamali was elected as Prime Minister by the Parliament, after the general election of October 2002. This was the first general election to take place in Pakistan following the 1999 coup by General Musharraf. Then Jamali resigned on 26 June 2004 because Musharraf wanted to appoint his finance minister Shaukat Aziz as PM.

Jamali claimed that the reasons of his differences with Musharraf were due to his act of blocking the privatisation of Pakistan Steel Mills, National Bank of Pakistan and sale of Roosevelt Hotel in New York, owned by Pakistan International Airlines (PIA).

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