Islamabad, August 9 : Rehman Malik and Farooq H. Naek, the two key members of Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani’s cabinet, were kept out of the critical coalition talks on President Pervez Musharraf’s impeachment and the restoration of the sacked judges.
This was the first time that Malik, Adviser to the Prime Minister on Interior Affairs, was not involved in important consultations.
According to The News, Malik, was kept totally out, while Naek was called when he was needed and then told to leave.
The chief of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), Altaf Hussain, has said that the country was facing socio-economic crises and Talibanisation in Karachi was the chief issue to be addressed instead of impeachment of President Pervez Musharraf at this point of time.
Islamabad, Aug 9 : President Pervez Musharraf has called the crucial National Assembly session at 5.00 p. m. in the evening on August 11, following the ruling alliance’s announcement to go for the impeachment of the President.
Islamabad, Aug. 9 : President Pervez Musharraf may have taken some positive steps to promote Pakistan as a modern and enlightened Islamic state during the last nine years, but for an overwhelming majority of the peoples'' elected representatives, he remains the most unpopular man in the country for various reasons, says an editorial in the Daily Times.
While an announcement has been made by Pakistan''s ruling coalition to go ahead with the impeachment of President Pervez Musharraf, top constitutional experts in the country have differed on what the country''s Supreme Court can or cannot do with regard to the motion. But most of them said that the apex court has no jurisdiction in the matter.
Karachi, Aug. 9: The proposed impeachment of Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf is "nothing but an issue", an "eyewash" claims former caretaker Sindh Chief Minister Mumtaz Ali Bhutto. 
