What do former presidents do while in retirement? Pakistan’s General Pervez Musharraf has hit the lecture circuit, delivering a talk recently at Stanford University. A report filed by Adam Gorlick for the Stanford News Service.
Pakistan’s former president defended his country’s record on combating terrorism Friday, and said Pakistan hasn’t received enough financial support or international credit in its fight against groups like al-Qaida and the Taliban.
“We have been a victim of terrorism,” Pervez Musharraf told a capacity crowd in Memorial Auditorium. “It is wrong to think of Pakistan as a perpetrator, as a cause of terrorism.”
Musharraf, who resigned his post in August under the threat of impeachment, was defensive about the money Pakistan received under his watch from Western countries in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. He said the $10 billion contributed by the United States was a miniscule amount compared to the funds given to Afghanistan and Iraq.
As can only be expected, not everyone was thrilled with Stanford’s choice of speaker. Friends of South Asia distributed a pamphlet listing reasons while Pakistan’s Pinochet should not have been invited. To read the pamphlet click here [via Teeth Maestro]
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