Pak winners propose anti-Parvez coalition but Musharraf says he will not quit
Kiran Chayube
Feb. 21, 2008

The party of Pakistan's assassinated former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto began stitching together a coalition today that could topple President Pervez Musharraf, after winning most seats in a general election.

Musharraf’s camp is banking on persuading Bhutto’s PPP to invite the pro-Musharraf Pakistan Muslim League (PML) to salvage his leadership.

Bhutto's widower Asif Ali Zardari, who took over as PPP leader after she was killed in December, appeared to take that Musarraf’s hope away saying the PML (Musharraf’s party) would not be welcome. Zardari told the BBC's Urdu-language service yesterday that Musharraf had said he would quit if he no longer had the people's support, and vowed that the PPP would put the issue of the president's future before parliament.

Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has for the moment settled all arguments with his pronouncement that he will not quit and the sacked judges will not be reinstated. His emissaries have also met the Pakistan Peoples Party working chairperson Asif Ali Zardari urging him not to join hands with the former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharief. Under immense pressure from all quarters within Pakistan and even outside Musharraf has let the long suffering Commando within him to break free declaring in no uncertain terms that he is neither contemplating retirement nor is he going to resign. While on the one hand his emissaries did meet Zardari he also made it known that he is prepared to work with Nawaz Sharief, whom he had once accused of no less than trying to kill him. Media reports from Islamabad quote Musharraf as saying "We are running a parliamentary system. The government is run by the Prime Minister. The President has no mandate to share governing power with the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister runs the government. The President has his own position but has no authority running the government."

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