Pervez Musharraf Quotes
I took the decision to stop her from going to the U.S. myself. I took this decision in the best national interest of Pakistan because I truly believed that the invitation would have tarnished Pakistan's international image rather than help improve the lot of women folk in Pakistan or elsewhere in the world. I believe there was a strong ulterior intent of maligning Pakistan by vested interests
The government of Pakistan was most troubled by this because the government leadership realizes how barbaric this (and other cases like it) is but large proportions of Pakistanis support the punishment and the right of the local village council to dispense “justice.” The government is too weak to go up against the fundamentalists and traditionalists and put a stop to this kind of atrocity.
Pervez Musharraf, Military Dictator and President of Pakistan, Defense of his ban on the travel of Mukhtar Mai, a Pakistani woman who was gang raped under the orders of the Village Counsel as punishment to her family because her brother had had an affair with a higher class wealthy woman. June 2005
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Pervez Musharraf is a Pakistani politician and a retired four-star general who became the tenth president of Pakistan after the successful military takeover of the federal government in 1999. He held the presidency from 2001 until 2008, when he tendered his resignation to avoid impeachment.
