Giving enough hints that Pervez Musharraf's days in office may be numbered, Pakistan's ruling PPP leader Asif Ali Zardari today said there is "tremendous" pressure from people who want the President's ouster and that he has "no choice".
Describing Musharraf as a "relic of the past", Zardari in an interview to PTI, however, candidly admitted that the President still enjoys powers under the Constitution to dissolve parliament and dismiss prime minister.
To a pointed query if Musharraf's days as President are numbered, Zardari evaded a direct reply saying: "I don't know whether his days are numbered or my days are numbered or our government's days are numbered. Who knows that?"
"He still has 58(2b) and he has a tremendous amount of power behind him. If he moves, he moves," he said, referring to the President's powers under Article 58(2b) of the Constitution that allow him to dissolve an elected parliament and thus dismiss prime minister.
The "bottomline" is that people of Pakistan want Musharraf to go. "And I am the servant of the people, not the master of the people," the PPP Chairman said.
Read the full interview here
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