08-11-2008, 02:51 AM
<b>Musharraf past his shelf life</b> <!--emo&:flush--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/Flush.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='Flush.gif' /><!--endemo-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->LAHORE - Despite the brave front being put up by President Pervez Musharraf in face of ever-increasing pressure on him to resign even before the impeachment motion is tabled in the Parliament it is becoming increasingly likely he will not be able to withstand the momentum of the political onslaught against him and in the coming days he will be forced to quit. The Provincial Assemblies resolution, being tabled in the Punjab Assembly today, also asks for his resignation forthwith.
With his loyalists in the PML-Q and its allies including supremo Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain distancing from him and advising him to fight or resign, the numbers game seems to be heavily skewed against Musharraf. Both PPP and PML-N are working overnight to woo the opposition and are already claiming to have mustered more than the required two-thirds majority of the joint strength of the Parliament to oust him.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Cheers <!--emo&:beer--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/cheers.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='cheers.gif' /><!--endemo-->