'Musharraf's book is a pack of lies'

Islamabad: Terming Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf's book In the Line of Fire as 'pack of lies' and a 'national shame', the Opposition today slammed him for disclosing state secrets in his memoir and demanded a special session of Parliament to discuss it.

In a statement published in the media on Wednesday, deposed Prime Minister Navaz Sharif's spokesman Nadir Chaudhri described the book as 'anti-Pakistan' and 'a pack of lies' aimed at rewriting history.

He said Musharraf seemed to have decided to make some money, realising that his 'political demise' was near.

He said the general had made personal attacks on Sharif and lied about the Kargil disaster and the 'illegal coup' he mounted to overthrow a democratically elected government in 1999.

He condemned attempts at maligning Pakistan nuclear scientist A Q Khan and said it was reprehensible and unprecedented that an army chief had presented such a negative image of Pakistan.

The General's 'sorry explanation' or his post-9/11 decision to take a U-turn on Afghanistan had exposed his decision-making process as seriously limited, flawed and defeatist that had led to the present gloom in Pakistan, he was quoted by newspaper The Dawn as saying.

Acting Parliamentary leader of PML-N Nisar Ali Khan said the opposition would summon a special session of National Assembly to discuss the President's book, which was a "pack of lies," adding it was illegal for a public servant to write a book revealing state secrets. "Whatever he has written is a national shame."