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This is an archive article published on November 12, 2010

‘Musharraf wanted his image to replace Jinnah on Pak currency’

Musharraf is presently in the US to drum up support for his comeback.

Pakistan’s former military dictator Pervez Musharraf wanted his photograph to replace that of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah on the country’s currency notes,according to an ex-prime minister.

Mir Zafar Ullah Khan Jamali,the Prime Minister appointed by Musharraf in 2002,disclosed that the former President wanted to print his photo in place of Quaid-e-Azam on Pakistani currency notes,but he refused to agree with him.

“I straight forward refused and told him that Quaid-e-Azam is identity of nation and people cannot forget services of founder of Pakistan,” Jamali was quoted as telling a private TV channel by Online news.

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Jamali,seen as being close to President Musharraf,was elected as Prime Minister on November 21,2002 after the general elections of October 2002.

Musharraf,who seized power in 1999,stepped down in 2008 and now lives in London as he plans his entry into Pakistan’s politics.

Musharraf is presently in the US to drum up support for his comeback,which he announced earlier this year by launching a new political party last month — the All Pakistan Muslim League — that would contest elections in 2013.

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