No shahadat in Lal Masjid, Jamia Hafsa: Rashid Qureshi

LAHORE: Senior Vice President All Pakistan Mulsim League, Maj. Gen. (Retd.) Rashid Qureshi Saturday asserted that there had been no ‘Shahadat’ in Lal Masjid and Jamia Hafsa and that such ‘rumours’ were intentionally circulated to malign Pervez Musharraf, Geo News reported.

“The consistency with which lies were told against Pervez Musharraf, at times, sounds fictional,” Rashid Qureshi said while talking to media men after launching Pervez Musharraf Foundation in Lahore.

Referring to Pervez Musharraf Foundation, he said it is non-political welfare body the aim of whish is to provide relief to the affectees of flood and other natural calamities. Begum Sehba Musharraf, wife of Pervez Musharraf, will head of this organization, he added.

He said the missing persons were those who went to Afghanistan for ‘Jihad’ and were killed there.