Pervez: Sacking CJ a mistake

Washington, Sept. 18: In a frank admission, the former Pakistani President, Mr Pervez Musharraf, said he made a “mistake” by sacking the Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry nearly two years ago.

“Now, after seeing the incidents following his (the Chief Justice’s) dismissal from the office I realised I should not have done that,” the ARY News quoted the former military ruler as having said in a university lecture on Thursday.

“It was a mistake to send the reference against him to Supreme Judicial Council, though it was my constitutional and legal obligation.

“The reference resulted in a chaos in the country... Probably I won’t commit such things in future,” he said.