Pakistani Dentist Wants Musharraf To Vacate Army Residence

Pakistanis have a great sense of humour, and it just seems to get better as the crisis in their country deepens.

In an open letter to President Pervez Musharraf, Awab Alvi, a Pakistani dentist who blogs at teethmaestro.com, has asked the military ruler to vacate the residence of the army chief in Rawalpindi as it was inconveniencing his successor.

Copies of the letter have been sent to the 'Chief Executive of Pakistan, George W Bush' and 'General Ashfaq Pervez Kiyani of Army-Q'.

The letter, with an "army stamp", also lists the other group companies "Army Welfare Trust, Defence Housing Authority, Fauji Foundation, Fauji Cereals etc".

The undated letter asks Musharraf to vacate Army House in Rawalpindi within a week's time.

Alvi writes that "the government of Pakistan has been quite active in issuing eviction notices to all the freshly retired government employees, more specifically targeting the judges who stood up and refused to take oath (under) the illegal Provisional Constitutional Order enforced on November three last year.

"Granted a retired personnel must soon vacate the official residence but somehow the bureaucracy seems to turn a blind eye to our very own President who was also retired from active duty last year and now is officially a ranked as a retired general in the Pakistan Army but ironically he still chooses to live in the luxurious Army House which he has enjoyed for the past many years," wrote Alvi, who is currently holidaying in Balochistan.

"We the people of Pakistan would like to issue him an eviction notice to also vacate his official residence, and herewith attached is a notice by the Executive Engineer of the Army House", he said.

Sacked former Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry was recently asked to vacate his residence in a week's time.

Former premier Nawaz Sharif has also asked Musharraf to vacate Army House. (DNA)
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