Afridi says that the ISI was hounding him to retract his decision before the next hearing of the presidential reference against chief justice on April 18.
ISLAMABAD: A retired colonel of the Pakistan army, who had surrendered his service medals and the title of colonel as a mark of protest against the General Pervez Musharraf’s attempt to undermine the sovereignty and independence of judiciary, is being harassed by the Inter Services Intelligence either to take back his decision within a week or face the consequences.
While protesting in an anti-Musharraf rally on April 4 in Islamabad, Col (retd) Anwar Khan Afridi literally hurled six medals he had won during his long service from 1970 to 1998, including those he had won for showing bravery during the 1971 war with India, towards the Presidency.
Afridi says that the ISI was hounding him and his family to retract his decision before the next hearing of the presidential reference against the apex court chief justice on April 18.
He said after their failure to ‘persuade’ him, the operatives of the intelligence agency had gone to his native village to pressurise his parents, who now fear for their life.
Afridi said that he won’t budge from his stance come what may. “I am a true soldier of Pakistan Army unlike Musharraf and would continue my struggle till the reinstatement of the chief justice and the removal of Musharraf from power,” he added. Anwar Afridi, who has four kids, and a wife, has already announced returning his army pension of two plots of land and $313 a month.
The target of his angry gesture is his own commander-in-chief, General Musharraf, who faces the most serious challenge to his eight-year rule, following his March 9 decision to suspend the chief justice of Supreme Court on flimsy charges of misconduct.
Anwar Afridi got his right hand fractured on April 7 in Lahore while taking part in an anti-Musharraf lawyers convention which was attacked by the Punjab police.
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