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KARACHI: Legislators in southern Pakistan voted on Wednesday for a resolution against President Pervez Musharraf, officials said, in the latest prelude to the US-backed leader's possible impeachment.
The Sindh provincial assembly was the third of Pakistan's four provinces to approve non-binding motions against Musharraf since the national coalition government announced last week that it would impeach the president.
"The resolution is adopted," assembly speaker Nisar Khuhro said after the resolution was approved through a show of hands, as members chanted "Go Musharraf, Go!"
Pro-Musharraf parties boycotted the vote or abstained.
The motion called on Musharraf to seek a vote of confidence from the assembly, which is dominated by his opponents, or face impeachment.
The assembly of Punjab province, the country's most populous, approved a similar motion on Monday and troubled North West Frontier Province bordering Afghanistan followed suit on Tuesday.
Ruling coalition leaders Asif Ali Zardari, the widower of slain former premier Benazir Bhutto, and ex-prime minister Nawaz Sharif announced plans to impeach Musharraf last Thursday.
The provincial votes are seen as a way of putting Musharraf under pressure to resign before he faces the humiliation of impeachment.
The coalition says it is still finalising a charge sheet against Musharraf and expects to introduce the impeachment motion in the national parliament next week.
It needs a two-thirds majority in a combined sitting of the upper and lower houses to topple the president, who could be the first president to be impeached in Pakistan's 61-year history.
- AFP/so
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