MUSHARRAF QUITS AS PAK PRESIDENT
Islamabad: Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf on Monday announced that he was resigning from his post in the face of an impending impeachment motion by the ruling coalition government.
Musharraf announced his decision in a 75-minute televised speech in which he flayed attempts to impeach him but said was avoiding confrontation to prevent instability.
"No impeachment or charge-sheet can stand against me. But I think this is not the time for individual bravado—this is the time for serious thought. In the interest of the country, I have decided to resign,” he said.
“The resignation will reach the National Assembly Speaker shortly," the 65-year-old former army chief said in an emotional internationally televised address.
Sources told CNN-IBN that Musharraf is likely to go to Jeddah in as a state guest of Saudi Arabia and he would stay at the same guesthouse where former Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif, the man he deposed, stayed.
Source : IBN Live
Monday, August 18, 2008
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