Beseiged President Pervez Musharraf has threatened to “expose the failures” of the ruling coalition as a second provincial assembly on Tuesday adopted a resolution asking him to seek a confidence vote in Parliament which will take up an impeachment motion againt him next week.

The “best option” for Musharraf, who is gradually being deserted by his allies in the face of the most serious threat to his nine-year reign, is to resign, said Ishaq Dar, leader of Nawaz Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim League(N).

Showing no signs of relenting, Musharraf said he has “sufficient official records to expose the failures” of the ruling coalition and accused Sharif of carrying out a “personal vendetta” against him.

Musharraf also dismissed as rubbish allegations of misappropriation of millions of dollars of US anti-terror aid levelled against him by PPP chief Asif Ali Zardari, saying that pocketing foreign aid by an individual is not possible.

Brushing aside Musharraf’s vow to fight it out in Parliament, ruling Pakistan People’s Party leader and Information Minister Sherry Rehman said there will be “no defence” in front of the “powerful chargesheet” being prepared by the coalition for Musharraf against whom the impeachment motion will be moved next week in the National Assembly.

Adopting a resolution by an overwhelming majority, the 127-strong North West Frontier Province Assembly said Musharraf should resign if he fails to take a confidence vote or else the 64-year-old former General should be impeached.

A similar resolution was passed by the powerful Punjab Provincial Assembly on Monday. The Assemblies of Sindh and Balochistan are expected to approve similar resolutions in the coming days.

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