'Kayani's charges against Musharraf childish and unbecoming'

ISLAMABAD — Presidential spokesman Maj-Gen. (Retd) Rashid Qureshi has termed the charges levelled against President Gen. (Retd) Pervez Musharraf by his one-time buddy Lt-Gen. (Retd) Jamshaid Gulzar Kayani, as "childish and unbecoming" of a retired army officer of the rank of lieutenant general.
In an interview with Geo News late on Tuesday night, the spokesman said Lt-Gen. Kayani's tirade against Musharraf on the same channel was disturbing. "He talked like an annoyed child not knowing what he was saying. If we go into the details of his allegations it will sound strange," Rashid Qureshi said while laughing off the charges of the former Rawalpindi corps commander.
Kayani held Musharraf responsible for twice subversion of the constitution, disregarding corps commanders' advice on every major decision including Kargil operation, referendum, slavishly submitting to American demands after 9/11 and involving the army in costly operations in Waziristan and Balochistan, ordering massacre of innocent girls and boys in Lal Masjid and sacking judges after imposing emergency in November 2007.
Lt-Gen. Kayani demanded that Musharraf must not be given a safe exit but tried on these charges and made an example as a deterrence to future adventurers.
Qureshi scoffed at Kayani's allegation that phosphorus bombs were used during the Lal Masjid operation that amounted to resort to chemical weapons. He said that white phosphorus grenades were used to create smoke to enable the soldiers move inside the premises, these grenades could not be called as chemical weapon.
He said if Lt-Gen. Jamshaid Gulzar Kayani had reservations against the Kargil operation, he should have the courage to speak against the same. He never uttered a word then. He also came up with double talk on briefing the former prime minister Nawaz Sharif on the Kargil operation and asked as to why Kayani did not resign if he was true to his claim, Qureshi asked.