SEP 11 - Gen (R) Pervez Musharraf gives 45-minute live interview to Dr Danish on Sawal Yeh Hai.

When asked who did 9/11, he said it was Al Qaeda certainly. “We interrogated them when we caught some of them. Conspiracy theories are wrong and baseless”, he added.

Musharraf said it was a 100 percent correct decision to take a U-turn on Pakistan’s Afghan policy after September 2001. The decision was in the national interest of Pakistan itself and not just for others. If we did not decide then to do so we would have faced grave danger to our country and to our national interests. Even now we face grave dangers, he added.

“On joining war on terror, we also gained economically, but the decision was in national interest and not an economic or transactional matter”, Musharraf added.

“We were frontline state during 1979 -1989and (10 years) and now again we are frontline state since 2001 (8 years todate), he commented.

America and the West should keep this in mind including anti-US feelings in Pakistan that inspite of being an ally during Afghan war as well as now there is anti-American feelings among the Pakistanis because of their transactional attitude, he alluded to.

Al Qaeda men are in the mountains and we should not deny it. We should work to get rid of them for our own stability, he added.

“It is our ‘defensive compulsion’ to own and maintain nuclear deterrance”, he said. “We still have threat from our eastern border, therefore we cannot compromise it”, he added.

Musharraf’s perception that we still have enemy on our eastern border undermines US policy statements for the region that Pakistan should stop worrying about India being an enemy and consider ‘existential threats’ it is facing on its western border.

Musharraf said back-stabbing is going on Pakistan from Afghanistan and it should stop. both India and Afghanistan are active in this matter, he said in so many words without specifically naming the both.

Jul 23, Aaj Kamran Khan Kay Saath on Geo: Discussion with power and electricity crisis with Raja Pervaiz Ashraf, Javed Ahmed, Ahmed Parekh and Muhammad Sohail. Why $2 Billion are being spent on rental power plant to temporarily obtain electricity for the country. After 5 years these power plants will be returned. Then what?

July 23: Hameed Ullah Jan Afridi, Senator Maulana Gull Nasib, Aqil Yousaf Zai and Senator Zahid Khan (ANP) in fresh episode of Capital Talk with Hamid Mir on Geo and discuss PPP governance, crisis in country, etc.

Jul 23 episode of Islamabad Tonight with Nadeem Malik: Haroon Rasheed (Columnist), Orya Maqbool Jan (Columnist) and Raja Pervaiz Ashraf (Minister for power, PPP) discuss pathetic state of electric power system in the country and its political implications, present and future.

July 22: Islamabad Tonight with Nadeem Malik: Ikram Chaudhary, Wasi Zafar Shah and Irfan Siddiqui discuss potential treason and or murder case against Gen (R) Pervez Musharraf in the light of the Supreme Court’s summon of the ex-president in Tikka Iqbal case.

July 22: Kamran Khan presents fresh episode of A”aj Kamran Khan Kay Saath” in Geo TV and talk with Hamid Khan (Petitioner), Justice (R) Tariq Mehmood, Justice (R) Nasir Aslam Zahid, Khawaja M. Asif (PML-N), Senator Jhangir Badar (PPP), Shafqat Memood (Analyst) and Ahsan Iqbal (PML-N) on Supreme Court’s summon notice to ex-President Gen (R) Pervez Mushaaraf in Tikka Iqbal case.

July 22: Ch. Aitzaz Ahsan, Riaz Khokar, Hasan Abbas and Javed Hashmi discuss Supreme Court’s summon notice to Gen (R) Pervez Musharraf on Capital Talk with Hamid Mir.

July 21 Capital Talk- Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed (Pres AML), Khush Bakhat Shujaat (MQM), Syed Khurshid Ahmed Shah (PPP) and Irfan Siddiqui (Columnist) discuss with Hamid Mir on Geo on load shedding, brewing civil disobedience, water shortage, etc.

July 21 Islamabad Tonight with Nadeem Malik: Tariq Ali, Hafiz Hussain Ahmed JUI-F, Sen Mir Hasil Baloch NP, Sen Abdul Rahim ANP participate in hot topics: Swat Ops, Balochistan insurgency, Pashtun insurgency.

Lt. Gen. (R) Talat Masood Analyst, Asif Ezdi (Former Amabassador, Security Analyst) and Qamar Zaman Kaira (PPPP) in fresh episode of Siyasi Log with Quatrina Hosain and discuss Indo-Pak relations, Composite dialogues, Sharm El Sheikh peace moves.

July 20 episode of Aaj Kamran Khan Kay Saath with Ayaz Mir (PML-N), Dr. Farrukh Naseem and Justice (R) Fakhr ud Din G Ibrahim. Topic: Protests from Karachi to Khyber on loadshedding, water shortage, etc.

July 20: Hasan Nisar (Columnist), Ansar Abbasi (Analyst), Dr. Safdar Abbasi (PPP) and Saleh Zafar (Sr. Journalist), Dr Safdar Abbasi(PPP) in fresh episode of Meray Mutabiq and discuss with Shahid Masood post-rain plight in Karachi, lack of governance.