Musharraf negotiates exit strategy as People's Party on Sunday staked claim to form the new government
Kiran Chaube
Feb. 25, 2008

A Presidential spokesman denied that Musharraf was considering quitting. One of Musharraf's close aides told the British daily that the President "has already started discussing the exit strategy for himself."

PPP leaders, who have been discussing possible formation of a coalition government with other opposition parting following the February 18 polls, asked the Musharraf regime to invite it to form the government.

"I think it is now just a matter of days and not months because he would like to make a graceful exit on a high," the unnamed aide was quoted as saying. The PML-Q, the party that backed Musharraf, suffered a crushing defeat in the polls in all provinces except Balochistan, where it emerged as the single largest group. Setting the stage for a possible confrontation with the next government, Pakistan's caretaker administration plans to print a new edition of the Constitution containing amendments made by Musharraf during last year's emergency, which have been rejected by the victorious opposition parties.

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