Veteran politician and chief of Tehrik-e-Istiqlal, Air Marshal Mohammad Asghar Khan (retd) on Sunday demanded of the government to recover the amount allegedly distributed among the politicians by Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) while forming Islami Jamhuri Itehad in 1990.
Addressing press conference here on Sunday, he alleged that a billion of rupees was distributed by ISI among a number of renowned politicians aimed at formation of Islami Jamhuri Itehad to defeat Pakistan People's Party in 1990s. He added that the amount should be recovered including interest from them.
Asghar Khan said that he had filed a petition in the Supreme Court challenging the distribution of money among the politicians since it was against the law and Constitution.
The case was not entertained by the Court since the take-over of the government by General Pervez Musharraf in 1999.
He asked the Chief Justice of Pakistan to reopen the case, for which he also put up a fresh application recently for re-hearing the petition, which he had filed some 10 years back against what he termed unconstitutional practice of the Pakistani agency.
He criticised ISI' role in politics saying that Army is a public servant and it should confine its duty to protect the national boundaries.
The duty of army is to follow the directives of the government within the limitation of the constitutional framework. He recalled that the unprecedented rigged elections in 1976 provided justification to army to enter in politics.
The veteran politician said that the government should manage to make the general elections transparent and Army should have no role in this regard. He said he supported subsequent governments for the maturity of democracy and strengthening of democratic institutions in the country.
According to him, Pakistani politicians did their best in disintegrating the united Pakistan in 1971 for their vested interests.
Two incidents ie breaking of Pakistan in 1971 by its own people and attacking on Supreme Court during Nawaz's government were two unique examples in the world, he concluded.
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