Rule of Law
Pakistan’s Musharraf Says He Will Resign Today
Posted Aug 18, 2008, 05:33 am CDT
By Debra Cassens Weiss
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has announced he will step down today, following more than a year of lawyer-led protests.
Musharraf said he is putting national interest above “personal bravado,” the New York Times reports.
"I am leaving with the satisfaction that whatever I could do for this country I did it with integrity," Musharraf said, according to a Washington Post account. "I am a human too. I could have made mistakes but I believe that the people will forgive me."
Musharraf had been under pressure to resign and was facing impeachment charges that claimed “gross violations” of the Constitution. He announced his resignation in a televised address.
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