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Musharraf has decided to quit, says Pak daily

Announcement may come today

PTI, Islamabad
With pressure piling up on Pakistan's embattled President Pervez Musharraf, the former military ruler has decided in principle to quit and will announce his decision in this regard on the country's Independence Day on August 14 (today), a media report has said.
If he resigns ahead of the impeachment motion being moved in parliament, the PPP-led ruling coalition will give him safe passage, a senior leader of the
opposition PML-Q was quoted as saying by the Daily Times newspaper.
A suggestion given to Musharraf is to "apologise to the people of Pakistan and the judiciary for sacking" Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry and other members of the superior judiciary and restore them before quitting, the report said.
While another advice given to him is to restore the judges and say that he will accept whatever judg-
ment they give on the validity of his presidential election last year and the legitimacy of the Provisional Constitution Order through which he had imposed emergency in November.
The report said it was "not known what decision he has taken in this regard".
If he resigns, the besieged President will remain in the Presidency' for a while as allowed by law until he is able to shift to his newly built home in Chak Shahzad
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on the outskirts of Islamabad, and "possibly leave the country a few weeks hence", it said.
Leaders of the ruling coalition said yesterday that the impeachment motion and chargesheet against Musharraf is expected to be submitted in parliament next week The motion will be submitted after the four provincial assemblies pass resolutions asking him to seek a vote of confidence in parliament.
MUSHARRAF FOR POLITICAL RECONCILIATION
President Musharraf yesterday called for political reconciliation in Pakistan, in an apparent appeal to opponents who are gearing up to impeach the key US anti-terror ally, reports AFP
Making his first public comments since the ruling coalition announced impeachment plans last week, Musharraf told a function on the eve of Pakistan's 61 st Independence Day that there was a "conspiracy" to weaken the country.
"It's my appeal that we should adopt a rcconciliatory approach so that stability should return." Musharraf told an audience of allies at the presidency in Islamabad in a speech that was televised live.
“Because if there is stability we can figlit terrorism, if we have a 'strong economy we can figlit terrorism, and we should all put aside our differences and work to make Pakistan strong," hesaid.
His appeal came hours after legislators in southern Sindh province became the third of Pakistan's four provincial assemblies to approve a motion calling on Musharraf to face a vote of confi-
dence or else be impeached.
Coalition leaders Asif Ali Zardari, the widower of slain former premier Benazir Bhutto, and Nawaz Sharif, the man Musharraf ousted in a coup in 1999, said last Thursday that they would seek the president's impeachment
The provincial votes are meant to ratchet up the pressure on Musharraf to quit before he is pushed out of power, although a presidential spokesman has repeatedly denied that he will resign.
Musharraf did not refer directly to the impeachment issue but he said that Pakistan, beset by Islamic militancy and economic meltdown, was "passing through a very critical moment in its history".