Al-Qaeda Attacks Pervez Musharraf

The woes of Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf seem to be unending. While the Parliament has begun formulating the impeachment proceedings against Musharraf, Al-Qaida’s number two Ayman al-Zawahiri slammed “Pakistan’s embattled President Pervez Musharraf as an enemy of Islam in a first audio message in English posted online on Saturday,” reports NDTV, India’s influential TV channel.

“In the message Zawahiri also dismissed the Pakistani army as a ‘band of mercenaries’ controlled by the US administration.
He chided Musharraf for offering ‘all support to topple the Muslim emirate in Afghanistan,’ referring to the US-led war which defeated the Taliban regime in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.

“Is the Pakistan army an army defending Muslims, or merely a security service agency or a band of mercenaries which kills Muslims to please its masters, the neo-crusaders in the White House’, he said, in an apparent attempt to incite Muslim Pakistanis against the army.” More here…

The Al-Qaeda message at this juncture appears to be an attempt to queer the pitch for, or throw a challenge to, those who wish to give sanctuary to the embattled President Musharraf.

Meanwhile Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said that Musharraf is ‘short of time’ and if he does not quit by Sunday, the impeachment proceedings will start. More here…

A Pakistani columnist guesses about the possible safe sanctuaries for Musharraf…Please click here…