ISLAMABAD, Aug. 9 (Xinhua) -- Pakistani President
Pervez Musharraf said Saturday he would face impeachment with a democratic
spirit.
During a meeting with Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid
(PML-Q) leader Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain here, Musharraf said he would face the
impeachment to be leveled by the ruling coalition and advised the ruling party
to adopt a thoughtful way.
Musharraf said Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N)
leader Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif was doing revengeful politics and also said he
would not dissolve assemblies, the News Network International news agency
reported.
Musharraf said he had served the country and he
neither robbed the country nor was involved in any corruption.
He said the constitutional charges against him were
all baseless and he had taken the decision declaring a state of emergency in the
best interest of the country.
Musharraf said he wanted to see what kind of charges
the ruling party would bring against him and then he would decide for his
future. He also advised the ruling party to avoid worsening the situation of the
country for the best wishes of only one party.
Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain advised Musharraf to avoid
dissolving assemblies, saying if he wanted to do so then PML-Q would not support
him for this act.
He told Musharraf that they would support him in
facing the impeachment.
Local media reports said Musharraf had signed a
summary by the government to convene a session of National Assembly on the
impeachment on Monday.
Pakistan's parliament to initiate
Musharraf's impeachment
ISLAMABAD, Aug. 9 (Xinhua) -- The parliament of
Pakistan was summoned on Saturday to meet on Aug. 11 to discuss a resolution to
seek the impeachment of President Pervez Musharraf.
The News Network International news agency quoted
officials as saying that the National Assembly, Lower House of the Parliament,
would meet at 5 p.m.(1100 GMT). Full story
Pakistani politician say impeachment
decision hasty
ISLAMABAD, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- Chairman of Pakistan
People's Party Parliamentarians Makhdoom Amin Fahim Thursday said the coalition
government had made a sensitive decision to impeach the President in haste like
other decisions the coalition made in the past.
The Dawn News TV channel quoted Amin Fahim as saying that
the time was not right for the impeachment of the president as he was afraid
that politicians were playing with fire. Full story
Pakistan's coalition to initiate move
to impeach Musharraf
ISLAMABAD, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- Pakistan's coalition will
initiate a move to impeach President Pervez Musharraf immediately, Pakistan
People's Party (PPP) Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari announced Thursday.
The judges who were dismissed last year will be restored
after the impeachment of Musharraf, Zardari said while addressing a joint news
conference with Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif here. Full story
U.S. says impeachment against
Musharraf Pakistan's internal
affair
WASHINGTON, Aug. 7
(Xinhua) -- The United States said on Thursday the bid by Pakistan's coalition
to impeach President Pervez Musharraf, a close ally of Washington, was "the
internal politics of Pakistan internal affair."
"We have consistently said the internal politics of
Pakistan is an issue for the Pakistani people to decide," State Department
spokesman Gonzago Gallegos told reporters. Full story
