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| Mush under pressure to quit as govt vows to nail him in NA | | | Islamabad | Aug 10
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf today faced mounting pressure from friends and foes to quit as the ruling coalition prepared a "comprehensive and solid" chargesheet to nail him in an impeachment motion to be brought in the special National Assembly session starting tomorrow.
"We will prepare a comprehensive and solid chargesheet that Musharraf will not be able to fight it....It is very necessary that he resigns himself, otherwise the impeachment will start," Law Minister Farooq Naek said after the ruling coalition met to draw a battle plan to end Musharraf's nine-year reign.
The document to be tabled in Parliament will charge Musharraf with violation of the Constitution and misconduct.
The 342-member lower house will meet at 5 PM tomorrow for the session that is expected to decide the fate of the 64-year-old Musharraf who has vowed not to quit and also ruled out dissolving the House to overcome the crisis facing him.
While there have been questions as to whether the coalition had the numbers in the two houses of Parliament -- the National Assembly and the Senate, PPP chief Asif Ali Zardari said he was "110 per cent sure of the success of the impeachment process.
"We had already completed the numbers game before launching such a vital move," Zardari said in an interview to a Pakistani private channel last night. The Assembly has a strength of 442, and the motion will have to be passed by a two-thirds majority or 295 members. |
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