Charge sheet against President Musharraf finalised: Khoro

ISLAMABAD:Speaker Sindh Assembly Nisar Ahmed Khoro Monday said the charge sheet against President Pervez Musharraf was ready and the impeachment move would be passed with a two-thirds majority in the joint session of the parliament. Talking to journalists here at the Parliament Cafeteria, the PPP leader termed the impeachment a historic step which would achieve unprecedented success. Ruling out failure of the impeachment move, he said “ this move would not fail.”
Referring to the statements by PPP senior leader Makhdoom Amin Fahim against the impeachment, Khoro said the Makhdoom was with the party and would remain in the party fold.
“No matter Makhdoom Sahib goes abroad or stays here, he would be with the party on impeachment,” he said.
To a question about the resignation by Makhdoom Jamil-uz-Zaman, the elder son of Amin Fahim, Khoro said his resignation would not be accepted just like the resignations by PML-N ministers were not accepted by the federal government.
“Article 41 of the Constitution provides that the president should be a person which has full support from all the federating units. If all the four provincial assemblies pass a move to impeach the president, the president has no justification to carry on with his slot,” he said.
He said the PPP would urge the MQM to support the impeachment move of the ruling coalition as the objective of the PPP to take the MQM along in the coalition was to “maintain a long term association”.
However, he said the MQM had every right to take its own course on the impeachment move.
On a query about the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO), Khoro said the ordinance was introduced by the President himself and was passed unanimously by the cabinet of the PML-Q government.
Since PPP is not a party to the NRO, the PML-Q leaders have no logic to blame the PPP for NRO, he said.
To a question about the assertion of MQM that Karachi was facing a Talibanisation threat, Khoro said the maintenance of law and order situation in the province was a collective responsibility of the provincial government, to which, MQM was also a part.
Referring to the statement of MQM Chief Altaf Hussain, Khoro argued, “Has anyone asked the people living in areas where Taliban are active to learn Judo Karate?”
He said the PPP had urged the MQM to be a part of the coalition government in Sindh to have a consensus national government in the province.
“This effort was a part of our bid made in 2002 to include the MQM into the coalition government. We could not succeed in year 2002 but these efforts succeeded this time and we were able to take the MQM along in the provincial government,” he added.