August 16, 2008	Saturday	Sha'aban 13, 1429

ISLAMABAD, Aug 15: PPP co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari said on Friday that President Pervez Musharraf had only two options — quit or face impeachment.

In an interview with DawnNews TV, he said four provincial assemblies, a part of the president’s electoral college, had given a clear verdict that he should step down. “We have been requesting him to go and he should also demonstrate maturity and leave.”

He made it clear that he was not a candidate for presidency and that political forces would take the decision. He, however, added that PPP, by virtue of being the biggest party, would have an edge over others in the matter.

To a question about the response of the Army to the impeachment move, he said the Army had no “political position”. “We do not want to put the Army to the test and at the end of the day democracy will win,” Mr Zardari observed.

About the war on terror and its repercussions, he said President Musharraf was responsible for the consequences arising from it.

About the ISI, he said the agency was still working under the prime minister. “It was a bureaucratic error that a misleading notification was issued showing the ISI was put under the interior ministry,” he added.