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Impeachment Move

Pak provinces, ally pile up pressure on Musharraf

AFP, Peshawar
Pervez Musharraf faced renewed pressure yesterday as a second Pakistani provincial assembly passed a resolution against him and a key ally said he would vote to impeach the president.
Legislators in militancy-hit North West Frontier Province (NWFP) chanted "Go Musharraf, Go!" as they overwhelmingly approved a no-confidence vote in the ex-general, a day after a similar motion in powerful Punjab prov-
Separately the party of former interior minister Aftab Sherpao said that he would support impeachment proceedings announced last week by the country 's ruling coalition.
"This is a tidal wave in favour of democracy," said Information Minister Sherry Rehman, a member of slain former premier Benazir Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party,
the biggest party in the coalition.
"The government's move to go ahead with impeachment of General Musharraf has received an overwhelming support from public representatives," she said.
The NWFP assembly passed the motion by a huge margin of 107 votes to four, speaker Karamatullah Khan announced.
A female assembly member from the party of Nawaz Sharif — another key coalition member and the man ousted by Musharraf in a 1999 coup - tore a portrait of the president to pieces on the floor of the house, an AFP reporter saw.
The country's two remaining provinces, Sindh and Baluchistan, are set to vote later this week.
The resolutions are not binding but are designed to ramp up the pressure on Musharraf to resign before he faces impeachment.
The NWFP motion accused Musharraf of following policies
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that had triggered unrest in the province bordering Afghanistan, which has suffered the worst of a wave of Taliban violence that has hit Pakistan in the past year.
The flawed internal and external policies of his dictatorial regime have resulted in the large scale murder of innocent people of our province and FATA (Federally Administered Tribal Areas)," it said.
A bomb targeting a Pakistan air force bus in Peshawar at about the same time as the motion was passed killed 13 people on Tuesday, and more than 150 people have died in a week of fierce fighting in the restive tribal bell.
The coalition say’s it is preparing a charge sheet against Musharraf, which is likely to be finalised and then introduced in the national parliament towards the end of the week
Musharraf's spokesman on Monday rejected calls for him to stand down.
But the announcement by the party of Sherpao, a staunch ally who headed the interior ministry until 2007, that he would back impeachment came as a fresh blow.
"We have decided to support the impeachment motion in the interest of democracy." said Sherpao's son Sikander, a member of the provincial assembly and a key leader of Sherpao’s small politicalparty.
Tne decision came after Sherpao spoke to coalition leader Asif Ali Zardari. Bhutto's widower, who led the PPP to win the most seats in February elections and topple the previous pro-Musharraf government.
The coalition is short of the two-thirds majority in the upper and lower houses of the national parliament that it needs to impeach Musharraf, and is looking towin over defectors from the presidential camp and independents.
Sherpao was a member of Bhutto's party until 2002 when he created his own faction and supported Musharraf in the previous parliament.