Musharraf to quit if next govt seeks impeachment

[Aarwaa]

Musharraf to quit if next govt seeks impeachment

* President says 90 percent of opposition claims are false

Daily Times Monitor

LAHORE: President Pervez Musharraf has said in an interview with The Straits Times that he would resign if the government that emerges from the coming general elections would seek his impeachment.

In another interview with the state-run PTV, the president called the allegations of election rigging “a national insult”. He said postal votes were packed honestly and transparently, but said he did not know how prisoners’ votes were cast.

“If anybody has information on ghost polling stations in any part of the country, they should bring it into the government’s notice,” he said.

The president said he had nothing to do with Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Nawaz Sharif’s disqualification from the elections, adding that it was the Election Commission’s job to permit or disqualify election candidates.

False claims: He said 90 percent of the statements made by the Pakistan People’s Party and the PML-N were false.

Calling political parties’ demand for the dissolution of local governments before elections unjust, he said nazims belonging to all the parties could influence the elections.

He said the restriction on becoming the prime minister for the third time could only be removed by the parliament.

To a question, he said he “has not been selling grams for the last eight years”.