HYDERABAD, Aug 19: Sindh Taraqqi Pasand Party chairman Dr Qadir Magsi has said that Pervez Musharraf should not be allowed to get off scot-free and should be tried for killing Ms Benazir Bhutto, Nawab Akbar Bugti and Balaach Mari and for May 12 and April 9 killings and thousands of other murders committed in Balochistan and the NWFP.

Addressing a news conference at the press club here on Tuesday, he congratulated the coalition government, the parliament, lawyers and members of the civil society on their ‘victory’ and said “the fascist rule of Pervez Musharraf who was a symbol of oppression has come to an end after nine years”.

The trial of Musharraf was extremely necessary to set an example, Magsi said, adding that had General Ayub Khan been put on trial, there would have been no Yahya Khan, Ziaul Haq or Pervez Musharraf.

He said General Ziaul Haq was the exponent of Islamisation in the country but he harmed Islam more than any other individual and that he was responsible for creating religious and ethnic bigotry in the country.

Pervez Musharraf had raised the slogan of ‘Pakistan first’ but destroyed Pakistan, Magsi said.

He said the murder of innocent people in Balochistan and in the tribal areas had undermined the very existence of the country.

No wonder that 160 million people of Pakistan were celebrating the ouster of

Pervez Musharraf, the STP chairman said.