Musharraf to use 58(2)b if judges restored through order: Assef

LAHORE - Former foreign minister and PPP MNA Sardar Assef Ahmad Ali has said Pevez Musharraf is not a constitutional president but a de facto whose eligibility as President has yet to be determined.

The present judiciary and Pervez Musharraf as President were not de jure but de facto in status however, Pervez Musharraf wielded Article 58(2)b power to pack up the assemblies anytime, said Sardar Ahmad Ali while addressing at a seminar organised by the People Lawyers Forum on the subject “People are the real heirs to the rule” at the LHCBA here Wednesday.

Senior leader PPP Mian Muhammad Jahangir presided over the seminar while former secretary LHCBA Shahid Muhamood Bhatti, PPP leader Prof Ijazul Hassan, SM Masud, Samiullah Khan and others also spoke.