Pervez Musharraf’s sentence hurts every soldier: Chaudhry Shujaat

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League-Q (PML-Q) President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain has said conviction of General (retd) Pervez Musharraf has hurt every soldier standing on the border to offer sacrifice of his life.

“Besides Gen (R) Pervez Musharraf, we should also be concerned about sentiments and feelings of the soldier who is countering every trick of the enemy army on every border, including Siachen, in the defence of the motherland and offeringsacrifice of his life. We should also be caring about that soldier when he is performing his duties in far flung areas and he comes to know that his commander-in-chief is being termed as traitor, then what will he feel. Army chief of any country does not become easily,” he said in a statement on Wednesday.

Shujaat said be it General (R) Pervez Musharraf or any other army soldier, ability, feelings and sentiments of love for the country and the nation are imbibed in them extensively. He said, “There are thousands of instances since 1947 up to now that our army soldiers had offered their lives for the country and the nation and defended the motherland.”

He said that some people on the basis of their false and fake ability are misleading the people and trying to highlight their false ability against the army in the debates while sitting in their drawing rooms and in TV shows. He said Gen (R) Pervez Musharraf fought two wars. “Today those people are raising hue and cry of treason against him who had taken oath from him. People should be watchful of misled people and safeguard their defenders from such false people,” he said. He said the people should remember the sacrifices of defenders of the country. “Negative propaganda against Pak Army only benefits our enemy country, who is taking full advantage of it,” he said.