August 16, 2008	Saturday	Sha'aban 13, 1429

QUETTA, Aug 15: Balochistan Chief Minister Nawab AslamRaisani has said that members of his cabinet who abstained during voting on a resolution against President Musharraf may lose their ministerial jobs.

Talking to newsmen after the adoption of the resolution in the assembly on Friday, he said that he would take up the matter with coalition partners.

Replying to a question, he said that by unanimously adopting the resolution Balochistan had sent a clear message to Islamabad that President Musharraf should be impeached for violating the Constitution and other wrongdoings.

He has to be tried and brought to book for his wrongdoings, Nawab Raisani said when asked about the murder of Nawab Bugti.

He said that if any member of the Balochistan assembly lodged a murder case against Musharraf he would support it.

Mr Raisani also said he believed that Musharraf would resign soon.

“I am 100 per cent sure Musharraf would quit before impeachment,” he said, adding that he had no other option but to resign because he had become a controversial figure.

“He should resign and go home,” Nawab Raisani said adding that in the course of impeachment proceedings a lot of things might come up which would tarnish the country’s image.

He said that there were many issues, including treatment meted out to nuclear scientist Dr A. Q. Khan, wheat scam and war on terror which would go against him.

He said that all coalition partners in Balochistan had already demanded that issues of the province, including military operation, killing of Nawab Bugti and hundreds of others, missing people and other wrongdoings should be incorporated in the charge-sheet being prepared in Islamabad.

Meanwhile, Sardar Sanaullah Zehri, a minister in the Nawab Raisani cabinet, said he would lodge an FIR against General (retd) Musharraf in Quetta for his involvement in the murder of Nawab Bugti and other Baloch people.

“I am going to lodge a case against Musharraf very soon in consultation with other colleagues.”