Islamabad: Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has said he will quit if the new government formed after the general election next month tried to impeach him.
"If that (impeachment) happens, let me assure that I'd be leaving office before they would do anything. If they won with this kind of majority and they formed a government that had the intention of doing this, I wouldn't like to stick around," Musharraf said in an interview to Singapore's Straits Times.
Two-thirds majority in Parliament is required for any impeachment proceeding. And the possibility of slain former prime minister Benazir Bhutto's PPP and Nawaz Sharif's PML-N getting it after next month's elections is not ruled out.
The President said Benazir, with whom he was reported to be having power-sharing talks, was "brave" but got "carried away" in the euphoria of the public support in her last rally, where she was killed.
"She was brave. Certainly she was brave," he said of Benazir.
When asked if he thought she was foolhardy, Musharraf replied: "No. In the euphoria of public support at her fatal rally, when thousands of people are there to cheer you, you do get carried away. When people start waving, you do things that you might not otherwise do. But certainly I would say that getting out of the vehicle was an unwise thing to do."
Musharraf also said the mystery of whether a bullet wound killed the PPP leader or not could only be solved by exhuming the body, but the move was blocked by Benazir's husband.
He added that the only evidence which could settle speculation about the the bullet wound, apart from photographs taken at the site of the attack, was an X-ray of Benazir's skull.
"There appeared to be no bullet wounds anywhere other than possibly in the right side of the skull....The only possibility of establishing the truth is to exhume the body and see....Her husband Zardari has forbidden it," he said.
"..Then we have to trust the photographs of the skull and other evidence that we have," he said.
When asked if there were photographs of the skull, Musharraf replied: "Yes. An X-ray", adding nobody was allowed to take normal photographs of the slain PPP leader in the hospital.
Musharraf also denied saying there was a bullet wound on Benazir's head. "People are saying that I said it was a bullet wound. I have not said that. I've said that that there is a massive portion of the skull that has been pressed in and there was a chip, a broken piece."
"But whether a bullet (killed her)? I've been a soldier and I know bullet wounds. I know that a bullet wound (is) a small hole and it always comes out somewhere. Now here there is no small hole," he added.
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