New Delhi: Amid uncertainty over the fate of embattled Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf, a top leader of the Awami National Party (ANP) today said the former military ruler has just two options left - leave the country or face prosecution.

Pressing for Musharraf's ouster, Mohammad Hasham Babar, the secretary general of the party which is a part of the PPP-led ruling coalition, said the President has destroyed almost all the institutions in the country, including the judiciary, during his dictatorship.

"He has to go out. We do not want him. Whether he goes out of the country or he is prosecuted in the country...there are only two options," Babar told reporters here.

Asked whether Musharraf is going out of the country, Babar said, "I wish he goes away and his influence also goes away." Former Premier Nawaz Sharif's PML-N party has demanded that Musharraf be tried for treason even as ruling PPP approved a proposed constitutional reforms package aimed at clipping the former military ruler's powers.

There was a buzz in political circles in Pakistan that Musharraf might opt to step down, but the President dismissed the reports as "malicious". Babar was in the national capital to participate in an anti-terrorism conference.
Source : PTI