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...Musharraf says he's not going anywhere and will work with the new government "for the good of the country." "They [the opposition] are way off in their demands," Musharraf's spokesman said in rejecting calls for the President to resign. "This is not the election for President. President Musharraf is already elected for five years." Officials from Musharraf's party are already reportedly trying to woo Zardari away from a tie-up with Sharif. Such efforts are unsurprising, since the key to Musharraf's fate undoubtedly lies in the ripening relationship between the two opposition leaders. Tough they...
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has blustered and wriggled his way out of some tricky situations in the past, but the former army commando may have finally met his match. A day after Musharraf's party crashed to a humiliating defeat in parliamentary elections widely seen as a referendum on the President's rule, calls for him to step down are becoming louder and more numerous by the hour. Aitzaz Ahsan, a lawyer and opposition leader who has spent the past three months under house arrest following Musharraf's crackdown on the judiciary, told the French News Agency that the President...
...Musharraf is not about to comply willingly with such demands, but he could see his hand forced once the new parliament assembles in the next few weeks. The Pakistan People's Party (PPP) of assassinated former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) led by former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif together won more than half the 272 open seats in Pakistan's parliament. Leaders of both parties said Tuesday that they would try to form a coalition; if they can win support from two-thirds of the parliament, they could try to impeach Musharraf...
...Sharif, who was ousted in the 1999 coup that brought Musharraf to power, is even more explicit in his calls for his arch-rival to resign, arguing that Musharraf himself recently promised to step down if the people decided they wanted him gone. "Musharraf has said he would quit when people tell him," Sharif told reporters at a press conference today. "People have now given their verdict...
...that will not be easy. Sharif, who returned to Pakistan on Nov. 24 after eight years in exile following his overthrow by Musharraf, has pledged to reinstate the Supreme Court judges dismissed by Musharraf when he suspended the country's constitution and established emergency rule on Nov. 3. Many of those judges are believed to view Musharraf's controversial election last year to a second presidential term as unconstitutional. Both the PPP and the PML-N also want Musharraf gone. "What we need to clean up the mess is to get back to the beginning," says PPP media coordinator Farahnaz...