Opposition parties on Saturday said that the "forced" resignation of Prime Minister Zafarullah Khan Jamali would destabilise the country" and added that the move was taken exclusively by President Musharraf as a face saving venture.
The opposition parties were surprised over the resignation of Prime Minister saying that the move seemed "very disgusting" in the face of the assurances by the President that National Security Council would bring about political stability.
To discuss the situation, the PPP-Parliamentarians will meet on Sunday while MMA leaders will meet most likely on Monday.
"The Prime Minister was forced to resign," commented Siddiqul Farooq, PPPP central information secretary while talking to Business Recorder on phone.
He said that the Musharraf government had failed on each and every front. "As face saving move, Musharraf, while making the Premier a scapegoat, forced him to leave the office of 'powerless' chief executive," he said.
"Jamali is being replaced by Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, a man with almost the same credentials. Nothing new will come up as far as the problems of the people are concerned. Musharraf will make him (Shujaat) a scapegoat, too, in days to come," Farooq said.
Meanwhile, an emergency meeting of the PPP-Parliamentarians noted that the resignation of Prime Minister Jamali demonstrated that the military leadership never accepted the civilian and political set-up even if that setup was artificially created by them.
"The system is unstable and resting on sandy foundations and the resignation has exposed the fallacy of the argument that National Security Council would usher in political stability," said the meeting which was presided over by Amin Fahim.
The meeting was attended by 20 MNAs and senators belonging to the Party who were available in the capital at short notice including Khursheed Shah, Chaudhry Manzoor, Nayyar Bukhari, Mujeeb Pirzada, Murtaza Satti, Shahid Bhutto, Rafiq Ahmad Jamali, Manzoor Wassan, Azra Pecheho, Fauzia Habib, Rukhsana Bangash, Fehmida Mirza, Sherry Rehman, Raza Rabbani, Anwer Baig, Khawaja Akbar and Farhatullah Babar.
The meeting also decided to immediately make contacts with the parties in the ARD and the democratic alliance for evolving a common strategy. Jamali had been forced to resign just after the National Assembly, reposing confidence in him, had passed the budget.
ARD leader Izhar Amrohvi said that Jamali had failed to create a country-wide lobby in support of General Pervez Musharraf and he was 'sent packing'. Jamali lacked that political clout to have created that lobby which is needed by Musharraf who is not apparently willing to relinquish military uniform by the end of this year, he said.
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