Zardari gives 'go ahead' for impeachment

The co-chairman of Pakistan Peoples Party, Asif Ali Zardari has held important meetings in Saudi Arabia in which he directed PPP leadership to get ready for President Musharraf's impeachment, reported a private TV channel quoting its sources Monday.
According to sources, matters regarding President's impeachment will be finalized after Asif Ali Zardari's return from Saudi Arabia.
Abrar Saeed from Islamabad adds: All the coalition partners including Pakistan People's Party, Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz), Jamiat Ulema-I-Islam and Awami National Party are converging at the point to finally go for impeachment of President Musharraf to save the incumbent political dispensation from a collapse.
Sources privy to the developments disclosed to TheNation that over the past month or so the leadership of the ruling coalition had held a series of meetings, ostensibly to workout modalities on the draft constitutional package, but actually these leaders had been discussing the ways and means to get rid of President Pervez Musharraf, who is losing ground with every passing day.
These sources further disclosed that as per the plan to dislodge President Musharraf and bring their own man in his shoes, the PML-N had adopted a hawkish stance while the PPP had adopted relatively a mild view on the issue by saying that it was having working relationship with Musharraf.
The other two coalition partners had initially been asked to remain neutral on the issue but with the passage of time when the abhorrence against the President would increase and from every nook and corner people would start raising voice against him and demand his ouster, these smaller coalition partners would also come out open against President and start demanding his ouster.
The JUI-F Chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman and his deputy Abdul Ghafoor Haideri came out open and said if an impeachment motion was tabled against President Musharraf, JUI-F would support it.
It was the growing disapproval of President Musharraf that PPP Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari had suggested him to step down by June 10, otherwise the time would decide his fate and it could be impeachment or something else.