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Making of a non-functional president?
Ruling Pakistan People's Party and Pakistan Muslim League (N) leaders are going to make anew history.
President Pervez Musharraf is no more welcome in any government function. Ruling coalition wants him to become the first ever non-functional president.
Verbal orders have been issued to all the federal government departments and also to the four provincial governments not to invite the president for the opening of any ceremony. All the four provincial assemblies will pass resolutions against the president next week and no chief minister will welcome him in anyprovincial capital.
Last year, Musharraf declared Ifikhar Muhammad Chaudhry a non-functional chief justice and this year he is becoming a nonfunctional president of Pakistan. Some close friends have already advised Musharraf to step down quietly but he is still confident that
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his hand picked Army Chief General Ashfaq Pervez Kyani will rescue him soon.
According to the constitution of Pakistan, President Pervez Musharraf is still more powerful than prime minister and the parliament. President is the supreme commander of the Armed forces. President can dissolve national assembly with the help of army anytime. He also has the powers to impose governor rule in any province.
PPP Co-Chairperson Asif Ali Zardari and PML-N Chief Nawaz Sharif think that President Musharraf is not in a position to suspend the government with the help of Pakistan Army. They are sure that army is already doing military operations in Baluchistan and tribal areas bordering Afghanistan. If army will help Musharraf against the newly elected democratic government then people in Sindh and Punjab province could also come out on the roads and army will be in a big trouble.
Article 41 of the constitution says that "there shall be a president of Pakistan who shall be the head of state and shall represent the unity of the Republic". If the president of Pakistan will become nonfunctional and elected chief ministers of four units of the federation will not welcome him then it will be very difficult for Musharraf to claim that he represents the unity of Pakistan. Ruling coalition has decided to call the national assembly meeting to initiate the
impeachment process against Musharraf next week Speaker of the national assembly will hold a debate in the joint sitting of the two houses of parliament on impeachment resolution.
According to article 47 of the constitution, two third members of the total number of both houses must declare that president is unfit to hold his office due to incapacity, or he is guilty of violating constitution or he is involved in gross misconduct. Musharraf will face the first ever impeachment motion in the history of Pakistan.
Highly placed sources in ruling coalition claimed that a comprehensive and lethal charge sheet against President Musharraf is already in the making.
This charge sheet may open many new Pandora boxes. The joint meeting of the two houses of the parliament will try to pass a resolution against a person who abrogated constitution of Pakistan not once but twice (October 12th 1999 and November 3rd 2007), who arrested one elected prime minister in 1999 and then arrested the chief justice of Pakistan on March 9 th 2007.
The charge sheet will say that according to the article 56 of the constitution, president was bound to address both houses of the parliament at the commencement of the first session of national assembly after new general election but he never performed his constitutional obligations. The charge sheet will accuse President Musharraf for conspiring against
the sitting elected government with the help of the opposition party, Pakistan Muslim League (Q). Ruling coalition members will also quote from his memoir "In the line of Fire" during the debate and say that as the army chief and head of the state, Musharraf created PML-Q on the advise of his close aide Tariq Aziz in 2002 which was a clear violation of the constitution as well as army rules.
PML-N members will demand to set up an independent inquiry commission against Musharraf to investigate the Kargil episode. According to the sources in the ruling coalition, Musharraf will have a safe exit if he resigns from the office of the president in next two days. If the impeachment motion will be passed by the parliament then it will be difficult for the government to provide him safe exit because many in Pakistan want him to produce in a court of law for breaking constitution, for the operation in Red Mosque last year and for the killing of innocents in Baluchistan and tribal areas.
Just weeks back, US Assistant Secretary of State Richard Boucher advised Pakistani politicians that they should stop squabbling about President Musharraf and focus on extremism, food shortage and power crisis. He said Musharraf was not a problem in Pakistan but now the ruling coalition has given him a message that Musharraf is still a problem for them. Coalition leaders are claiming off the record that Bush administration has finally discarded Musharraf and
nobody from Washington will come and rescue their most trusted friend in Pakistan.
One federal minister of the ruling coalition has cautioned his leadership about the possible dangers in this new game. The minister is of the view that both ruling coalition and President Musharraf are playing a very risky game. The numbers are very important in this game. Coalition partners need 295 votes out of 442 to impeach President Musharraf.
They claim to have the support of 305 members. If Musharraf can convince Pir Pagara of PML-Functional to hold his party's 6 votes and some dissidents in PPP led by Makhdoom Amin Fahim decide to abstain then coalition partners will be in big trouble.
Asif Ali Zardari and Nawaz Sharif were very' relaxed yesterday and they claim to their colleagues that they will ultimately win the support of 350 members.Both camps are very confident but there is one difference. One camp is led by a functional federal government having the support of four provincial governments.
Other camp is led by a virtually non-functional President who is looking towards army which is claiming now to be neutral and no more interested in politics. If army docs not come to rescue its supreme commander then Musharraf will become a "lesson in the history'of Pakistan.