Islamabad  - Pakistan's ruling coalition said on Saturday it had prepared a charge sheet against President Pervez Musharraf to impeach him in parliament.

Information Minister Sherry Rehman said the draft of the charges had been handed to the Law Ministry, which was expected to convert it into appropriate legal language.

"The legal draft will be presented to the coalition leaders on Sunday or Monday and after their approval it will be tabled in parliament next week," she told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.

Lahore, Aug. 16 : A spokesman for former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, Sadiqul Farooq, has said that providing President Pervez Musharraf with legal guarantees were out of the question.

Farooq said that the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz is of the view that Musharraf should be tried for treason, which carries a maximum punishment of death.

Parachanar (Pakistan), Aug. 16 : Fresh violence in Kurram Agency killed 13 including 11 extremists and left 15 wounded.

According to The News, heavy and automatic weapons were used in the clashes in different areas of Kurram Agency.

Injured were shifted to Alizai, Sada, Shishu and Parachanar.

Fighting is spreading to more areas.

Closure of Parachanar-Peshawar highway since last 10 months has weighed down the population of 5, 00,000 in Parachanar, leading to acute shortage of oil, medicines and kitchen items.

Islamabad- At least 13 people were killed and 15 injured Saturday in fresh sectarian clashes between rival Shiite and Sunni Muslim tribesmen in north-western Pakistan, media reports said.

Scores of fighters targeted each other with heavy weapons as the running battles between the sides continued for the 11th-consecutive day in the Kurram tribal district, which borders Afghanistan, the Geo television news channel reported.

Karachi, Aug 16 : Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf’s look-alike actor Waseem Ansari caught everybody’s attention when he sat in the Speaker’s Gallery in the Sindh Assembly yesterday.

Provincial Assembly Speaker Nisar Ahmed Khuhro welcomed Ansari to the House.

Quite to amusement to all, the Speaker said that he welcomed guests sitting there “whether they were coming or going”, in an apparent reaction to the impending Impeachment move against Musharraf on Monday.

Islamabad, Aug 16 : Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that foreign militants, especially from Chechnya and Uzbekistan, wanted to destabilise Pakistan, but, he added, his government would establish its writ at every cost.

He said that a stern action against the militants was essential.

Gilani said Pakistan was envisioned free of terrorism and extremism by the government, and that a political dialogue with all the stakeholders would be initiated for the purpose.