Musharraf faces impeachment

ISLAMABAD: After three days of intense talks, the PPP-led ruling coalition in Pakistan announced on Thursday that it had decided to impeach President Pervez Musharraf, warning that any move by him to fight back by dissolving Parliament would be rejected by the nation. A joint declaration drafted by the PPP and its main ally, the Pakistan Muslim league (N), and accepted by other partners in the coalition, listed the reasons for the move. Read out by PPP leader Asif Ali Zardari in the presence of PML(N) supremo Nawaz Sharif and leaders of the other coalition parties at a press conference, the charges against the retired General Musharraf included his failure to take a vote of confidence from the newly elected parliament despite a commitment he would do so to the Supreme Court at the time of his election from the outgoing... [read full story]