02-26-2008, 01:35 AM
<b>Musharraf planning exit: UK paper</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->LONDON, Feb 24: Pervez Musharraf is considering stepping down as president of Pakistan rather than waiting to be forced out by his victorious opponents, a report in The Sunday Telegraph said quoting his close aides.
Close friends of the president and his confidants told the paper that the president believed he had run out of options and had started discussing an exit strategy for himself. One of them thought âit is now just a matter of days and not months because he would like to make a graceful exit on a highâ.
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Close friends of the president and his confidants told the paper that the president believed he had run out of options and had started discussing an exit strategy for himself. One of them thought âit is now just a matter of days and not months because he would like to make a graceful exit on a highâ.
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