Author: Press Trust of India
Publication: www.expressindia.com
Date: January 31, 2002
URL: http://www.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=7001
Pakistan's Jamaat-e-Islami has claimed
President Pervez Musharraf had threatened to quit three days ahead of his
January 12 address in the face of vehement opposition by military commanders
to his stand on terrorism, Indo-Pak relations and the Kashmir issue.
"There was a crisis like situation
at the General Headquarters (GHQ) as Musharraf was faced with resistance
from Corps Commanders on the steps he was about to announce in the speech
because of their reservations with regard to the Kashmir issue and India,"
the special issue of Jamaat mouthpiece Jasarat said.
"These differences reached to such
an extent that Musharraf even threatened to resign," the article said.
It said "the Corps Commanders accepted
Musharraf's decision after his threat of resignation" and added that the
January 12 speech, in which he promised action against terrorist outfits
among other things, "was recorded and edited" by the commanders and then
telecast.
