Spokesperson to the President, former Senator Farhatullah Babar on Friday dismissed former President Pervez Musharraf's claim that Shaheed Benazir Bhutto wanted him to continue as President of the country.
In a rejoinder to an interview by former military ruler to an Indian channel, Babar said, "It is wishful thinking of a disgraced dictator who has been shunted out of the Presidency in full public view and who is now seeking a measure of public support to escape the fate that awaits all dictators."
He said that Musharraf's assertion has proved Mohtarma Bhutto's prediction made during an interview in the last months of her life that "A day will come when Musharraf will beg for my pictures to sustain himself".
Farhatullah Babar said that what the late leader thought of the dictator is graphically described in her two books; "Daughter of the East" and "Reconciliation" besides innumerable interviews.
He said Musharraf should read her books and the remarks she publicly made about him in the interviews.
"He must stand erect on his own feet and face the consequences of his misdeeds rather than seeking shelter behind the name and pictures of Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto whom he chased and hounded when in power as all tin pot dictators do to the leaders of the masses," he said.
Farhatullah Babar said Musharraf has only ridiculed himself by asserting that the leader and Chairperson of the party that hooted and booted him out, wanted him to continue as the President of the country.