Rashid reports plot to kill COAS and passengers
Gen. Musharraf's plane would have been destroyed: Brig Qureshi, ISPR ISLAMABAD, Oct
14 (20:43 PST): Director General, ISPR, Brig. Rashid Qureshi said here today that an attempt was made to arrest the COAS, failing which 'they' planned to destroy the PIA aircraft carrying General Pervez Musharraf from Colombo to
Karachi on Tuesday evening. He said the plane was rapidly running low on fuel and it could only fly for another
seven minutes when it finally landed at Karachi Airport. The PIA flight was also carrying Gen. Musharraf's wife
besides another 238 passengers, including 20 children. (APP)
Pro-Army Think-Tank, an OXYMORON
SPECIAL INTERVIEW: Perceptions of a 'pro-army' think-tank Circles close to the GHQ comprising of intellectuals, ex-military officers, former civil servants and "pro-army " politicians, have began to coalesce into informal think tanks to debate policy options open to the military and the establishment in the post-Nawaz scenario.
A spokesperson from one of the more important of these think tanks in Islamabad, who did not wish to be identified and who is sympathetic to the recent move to oust Nawaz Sharif, was interviewed earlier today. Click here for excerpts of the interview. |
