LAHORE, Aug 10: The PML-Q on Sunday announced all-out support for President Pervez Musharraf against his impeachment and warned the ruling coalition of `political instability’ if it ignored laws in the process.

“The impeachment drive will open a pandora’s box and anything can happen in the ensuing political chaos,” party’s secretary-general Syed Mushahid Husain, flanked by president Chaudhry Shujaat Husain and opposition leader in the National Assembly Pervaiz Elahi, told the media after a meeting of party’s central executive committee.

He said that president’s impeachment would, in fact, become a trial of the ruling coalition that was following Musharraf’s policies in each sector.

He said Musharraf had a clean track record while the incumbent government was the outcome of the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO). “If they (the government) have moral courage, they should denounce the NRO.”

He said the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), whose leader Altaf Husain also spoke to the CEC from London by phone for 20 minutes, had assured its support to the PML-Q on the impeachment issue.

Alleging horse-trading and arm-twisting measures by the government to secure required votes for the impeachment process, Mushahid claimed the morale of his party men was very high and that they would not let the country become a one-party state or one-party dictatorship.

The PML-Q leader claimed that President Musharraf was thinking of relinquishing the charge but “seeing our courage he has decided to fight back”.

Pervaiz Elahi announced that they would not allow Musharraf to retreat and tender resignation. He dared the coalition government to name the replacement for Musharraf for whom the entire process had been initiated.