The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) on Saturday demanded of the coalition government to summon the joint session of the Parliament for impeaching President Pervez Musharraf.
Presenting a charge-sheet against President Musharraf at a news conference here, PML-N Central Information Secretary Siddiqul Farooq alleged that he (Musharraf) is responsible for killing former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, Kargil misadventure; the unconstitutional steps taken on November 3, 2007, breeding terrorism and extremism and destroying the national economy during his eight-year reign.
He demanded of the coalition government to impeach President Musharraf by summoning a joint session of the Parliament, claiming that the coalition government enjoys two-thirds majority in the Parliament.
He also demanded of the government to include former chief minister Sindh Arbab Ghulam Rahim, former Punjab chief minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi and former IB chief Brigadier Ijaz Shah in the investigation, who, he alleged, are involved in the assassination of Benazir Bhutto as well as in the corruption.
The PML-N leader also sought formation of an independent judicial commission under a neutral judge to probe the killing of PPP Chairperson Benazir Bhutto. "In the light of the e-mail message of Benazir to her friend Mark Siegel and the letter sent to Musharraf on October 16 last, disclosing the names of her possible assassins, it was clear that her killers are known and they should be brought to justice", he contended.
He said that the assets and accounts of Pervez Musharraf in United States and Turkey be probed to ascertain that how he accumulated all the property, as his salary is very meager. He said that Musharraf has no right to stay as President after the multi-pronged crises being faced by the masses due to his policies. Due to economic policies of his imported prime minister, there are cartels in every sector and the country was fallen into a deep food and energy crises, he alleged.
The country, he observed, is now ungovernable due to unwise economic, security and judicial policies of Musharraf and his team. The trade deficit, he claimed, has increased to $18 billion from $1.4 billion along with similar current account deficit, unprecedented inflation and unemployment.
In the charge sheet, PML-N also held Musharraf responsible for launching the misadventure in Kargil with the neighbouring country in 1999, which not only brought the two countries at the verge of nuclear war but more than 3,000 Pakistani soldiers were also killed. The PML-N leader also held the President responsible for the unending wave of terrorism and extremism in the country, saying that all these have cropped up due to Musharraf's policies, particularly after declaring Pakistan ally on the war on terror, terming it a 'war for terror'.
Due to this war, he said, more than 2,000 army men have died from soldier to a general in different suicide and other attacks. He also charged that President Musharraf did not have any account of $4.58 billion given by the United States to Pakistan for supporting the so-called war on terror.
Siddique also said that Musharraf managed to bring illegitimate and ineligible people to assemblies through polls rigging in 2002 elections. To a question, he said if President Musharraf used 58(2)B to dissolve the elected assembly to save him, it would be dangerous for him as well as for the country.
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