ISLAMABAD: Former President and ex COAS General (R) Pervaiz Musharraf who heads his own faction of Muslim League has offered Imran Khan to make a joint alliance against PPP and PML-N for next general elections.
Former president Pervez Musharraf, who now heads the All Pakistan Muslim League (APML), has said that the Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) and the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) are set to win the next general elections, likely to be held in 2018, unless a grand alliance of various parties is made to defeat these two parties.
Addressing a press conference, he said that there was a 90% chance that the PML-N and the PPP would win the next general elections from their traditional strongholds, including from possibly the Pakhtunkhwa, if a third force was not formed to mount a challenge.
He said that Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran khan alone cannot defeat the PML-N and the PPP because he has no plan. He assured the PTI chairman that he (Musharraf) was not interested in taking over the office of the prime minister.
Musharraf was accompanied by officer bearers of his party including Afzaal Siddiqui, Tebraiz Aurah and Shaan Abidi. “Imran Khan has done a lot to raise awareness on Panama Papers case and other issues and deserves credit for that but he needs new thinking and rise above himself and look beyond,” he said.
“I say openly I have no desire to become the prime minister of Pakistan. I am not insecure and I can guarantee that I am ready to shake hand with Imran Khan and for that matter anyone on this planet who is against the PPP and PMLN,” the former president said.
When asked when he will return to Pakistan, Musharraf said that he was trying to get his cases resolved through courts but would return once there was mass public support behind him.
He said that he was avoiding Pakistan because there’s no point in returning if his freedom of movement was restricted.