Islamabad, July 27
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has been advised by his top military commanders to quit in the wake of the restoration of Chief Justice Iftikhar M Chaudhry, a daily reported on Friday.
During his six-day long discussions with his top military aides in Rawalpindi after the reinstatement of the Chief Justice by the Supreme Court, Musharraf was advised to seek an “honourable exit”, ‘The News’ quoted unnamed sources as saying here.
Though the President did not react to the suggestions, the sources said he might make a decision after his return from an official tour of Saudi Arabia where he’s likely to raise this issue with the Saudis in a bid to find “a way out of the political mess without any loss of face”.
There was a consensus in the presidential camp during the discussions that Musharraf was in such a situation that even former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto’s political support could not bail him out, the sources said.
— PTI
