LAHORE, Dec 1 (Reuters) Former prime minister Benazir Bhutto is betraying Pakistan by not joining an election boycott that Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chief Imran Khan said Saturday was key to ousting President Musharraf. “It is a complete case of betrayal,” Khan told Reuters in an interview after addressing lawyers in Lahore. “Every day she says there is pre-poll rigging, every day she says there can't be free and fair elections. She says she doesn't trust the caretakers, she says the emergency is illegal...And yet she is participating and legitimising the whole process.” “We want the whole (election) process to be discredited,” Khan added. “To participate...is just playing on his pitch to save him. We are just giving him a lifeline…If all the opposition got together today, the elections would be discredited, then he's gone, because he's no longer head of the army…So then we have free and fair elections and hope for the future.” Khan says Bush's backing for Musharraf is compounding Pakistan's problems. “If they do not ask for the reinstatement of the judges, they are playing Musharraf's game. Basically the impression is George Bush's administration does not want an independent judiciary, because then they won't be able to control the government like a puppet supposedly to fight their war on terror.” “This movement eventually will turn against the U.S. too, like the Iranian revolution.”
Source: Insaf News
Source: Insaf News
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