US signals Zardari to remove Musharraf

[EagleEyes]

It seems unlikely that he will resign really.

 

[Tiki Tam Tam]

The way the Parliament is going hammer and tongs against Musharraf, it is good that he leaves and settle abroad like Ayub Khan and from a distance watch how this democratic govt functions.

Right now they have one enemy - Musharraf.

Once he goes, they will fight amongst themselves and Musharraf can have the last laugh.

The first bone of contention will the have two CJs and Two Supreme Court benches and trying to sort out the mess as to which one is legitimate.

And in that chaos the politically inclined ex CJ will throw in his glove to make the water murkier!

The situation is just like the Communists of India supporting from outside and actually hindering the Indian govt from functioning.

Thanks to the utter lack of governance, the BJP is winning state after state in the state elections.

In the case of Pakistan, the army shall have to return to stem the chaos. Sine quo non. so to say.

I hope I am not right.

 

[fatman17]

It seems unlikely that he will resign really.

Webby - i cant predict for sure but the inside information is that the president's immediate family is pleading with the president to quit. thats all i can say.

 

[Neo]

Musharraf's Spokesman Denies Report Pakistan President to Quit ​

By James Rupert

May 29 (Bloomberg) -- Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf's office denied a report that he is set to resign after a key ally was replaced as commander of troops stationed in Islamabad.

Rashid Qureshi, a spokesman for Musharraf, also denied that the president's security detail had been changed. The News, an English-language daily, reported earlier today on personnel changes and said army commander Ashfaq Parvez Kayani pressed Musharraf to step down in a meeting last night.

The army confirmed it had replaced Musharraf's former military secretary, Aasim Bajwa, as commander of the 111 Brigade, which deploys troops in and around the capital. The reassignment was routine, according to a statement from the office of military spokesman Athar Abbas.

``A section of the press is trying'' to ``sensationalize routine functional matters,'' the statement said.

Musharraf faces increased pressure after the main leader of the ruling coalition, Pakistan Peoples Party chairman Asif Ali Zardari, last week declared him ``a relic of the past.'' Musharraf took power in a 1999 coup and remained for eight years as military ruler before quitting the army under popular pressure in November.

The 111 Brigade has played a key role in either conducting or preventing military coups, including Musharraf's seizure of power from then prime minister, Nawaz Sharif. Musharraf named Bajwa to head the unit last year.

To contact the reporter on this story: James Rupert in Islamabad at jrupert3@bloomberg.net.

Bloomberg.com: Asia

 

[Myth_buster_1]

That is bad GeoTv bad!
Geo is more like rumors/gossip TV.. i guess thats what our people like.
Long live Musharraf long live

 

[Myth_buster_1]

KARACHI, Pakistan - Pakistani stocks recovered much of its initial drop Thursday as swirling talk that President Pervez Musharraf would resign added to concern about the country's economy.

The Karachi Stock Exchange's 100-share index closed down 19.92 points, or 0.2 percent, at 12,235.05. Earlier, it was down more than 4 percent and touched its lowest level in nearly 14 months.

The index has dropped by about one-fifth over the past six weeks amid fears that problems including yawning budget and trade deficits and double-digit inflation will halt Pakistan's' strong economic growth.

 

[Mansoor A Qureshi]

I wish those rumors were true................

 

[Awesome]

People just playing around with the KSE.

 

[HAIDER]

Geo prove itself for being an anarchist TV channel. (working for Nawaz party, God knows how much NS party spending money on Anti-Mush campaign and lawyers campiagn)

Musharraf's spokesman, army douse resignation rumour
ISLAMABAD, May 29 (Reuters): The Pakistani army and President Musharraf's spokesman moved to dampen speculation Thursday that the president was about to quit. The military issued a statement saying General Ashfaq Kayani “regretted that a section of press is trying to unnecessarily sensationalize routine functional matters”. President Musharraf’s spokesman Rashid Qureshi rebutted rumours that Musharraf had agreed to leave his official residence in Rawalpindi. “Neither has there been any discussion of the president moving out of the President's Lodge, nor is there any plan for him to do so,” Qureshi said. (Posted @ 12:55 PST)
dawn headline news.

 

[never]

these politicians are traitors and so are their supporters, they are all mir jaaffars

 

[genmirajborgza786]

Army plays down Musharraf report
By M Ilyas Khan
BBC News, Karachi



President Pervez Musharraf has met Pakistan's army chief, Gen Ashfaq Pervez Kayani, amid growing concerns over political and economic problems.

An army spokesman also confirmed reports that some key military officials hand-picked by President Musharraf have been transferred.

Mr Musharraf has resisted calls by his political rivals, who won in February's elections, to resign.

The political stand-off is adding to the country's economic woes.

Pakistan army spokesman Maj-Gen Athar Abbas called both the army chief's meeting with President Musharraf and the redeployment of some key Musharraf appointees as a "routine" matter.

He was reacting to a media report which said the army chief's meeting with President Musharraf was aimed at persuading him to quit.

The report said the army had also removed a Musharraf loyalist from the command of the Rawalpindi-based 111 Brigade, which defence analysts say would play an important role in any military takeover or the sacking of a civilian government.

The army had also replaced a security contingent of President Musharraf that was hand-picked by him, it said.


'Relic of the past'


The moves come as President Musharraf faces stiffening resistance from the judges he sacked on 3 November when he imposed emergency rule in the country.




They are supported by the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) party, which emerged as the second largest party in February's elections and now shares power with the country's largest party, the Pakistan People's Party (PPP).

The PML-N pulled out of the federal cabinet earlier this month when the PPP refused to agree to restore the sacked judges without constitutional reforms to back the move.

Its leaders blamed the PPP for being soft on President Musharraf and favouring a working relationship with him.

But in a rare outburst last week, PPP chief Asif Zardari called Mr Musharraf a "relic of the past", and someone who stood "between the people and democracy".

Observers say this change of heart follows from President Musharraf's resistance to the PPP's reforms package that aim at clipping the president's powers and restoring the judges.

A number of US lawmakers who visited Pakistan earlier this week have also criticised the US administration's dependence on President Musharraf.

One of them, Senator Russ Feingold called for the restoration of judges as essential to constitutional reforms.

The country's stock market has responded to this ongoing crisis by shedding nearly 3,000 points in trading in two months.

The Pakistani rupee has also lost more than 10% value during the last two weeks. Meanwhile, the gap in trade balance has exceeded $10bn, due to a rising oil bill.

In a meeting with members of the Karachi Stock Exchange in Islamabad on Wednesday, Mr Zardari said the government would focus on economic issues once the political issues were out of the way.


Story from BBC NEWS:
BBC NEWS | South Asia | Army plays down Musharraf report

Published: 2008/05/29 15:14:20 GMT

© BBC MMVIII

 

[Tiki Tam Tam]

President Musharraf is said to be going to Turkey.

It appears NS is taking revenge.

 

[AgNoStiC MuSliM]

Merging other thread into this one

 

[grandtrunkroad]

Anyone know what the latest is?

 

[Awesome]

If the US wants Musharraf out, Pakistan wants Musharraf out.

Interestingly all these anti-Mush people kept complaining that he's an American puppet. The real puppetshow has just begun.