slamabad, Aug 16 (PTI) Ruling Pakistan People’s Party co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari said President Pervez Musharraf should “demonstrate maturity” and resign, maintaining that he has only two options – to quit or face impeachment proceedings in parliament. He said the provincial assemblies, which are part of the President’s electoral college, had passed resolutions with an overwhelming majority asking Musharraf to seek a vote of confidence in parliament.

“We have been requesting him to go and he should also demonstrate maturity and leave,” Zardari told Dawn News channel in an interview. Asked if the President was willing to step down before the coalition launched impeachment proceedings, Zardari said: “There are two schools of thought.

One school says that in a battlefield .

You always leave the room for exit so that you lose the least and the opposition has a chance to retreat.

“And the other school is that let him confront and let parliament do what other parliaments have done to the dictators of the world.” He added: “From a position where people would defend him (Musharraf) and ask why should he go, everybody is asking today why isn’t he going.

That was done by design. We have managed to bring it to this position.

” Replying to a question about the army’s possible response to the impeachment move, Zardari said the army “has no political position and that’s enshrined in our constitution”. He said the PPP-led coalition did not want to put the army to the test and “at the end of the day, democracy would have won one way or the other”.

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