Former President Pervez Musharraf has said that a conspiracy has been hatched against the army based on the fact, "If you want to weaken Pakistan then weaken the army" and this is what is happening now. In an interview to British Radio on Wednesday, Musharraf said that he during his tenure had ordered the intelligence agencies to keep themselves aloof from politics. "We had decided that secret agencies must not indulge/interfere in politics," he added.
Responding to a question relating to the registration of cases and investigations against the army, he said that a conspiracy was being hatched against the army based on the fact that "if you want to weaken Pakistan then weaken the army". Musharraf said US drone strikes mostly killed terrorists in tribal areas, adding that some persons from the general public also fell victim to it, but their number was being exaggerated.
He reiterated that he had no written or verbal agreement with the US regarding the drone strikes and that he had been lodging protests on these attacks with the then US President Bush. He said that opening the old cases was not a good thing and advised to forget the past and keep focus on the present and the future.
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