Defence Minister Ahmed Mukhtar told AFP that "the charge sheet will be presented in parliament by Tuesday."

Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said a day earlier that Musharraf had to decide on quitting "by today or tomorrow."

The coalition finalised the charges yesterday.

"It is a historic document," Rehman told reporters.

She said it would be submitted to parliament as part of an impeachment resolution "this week" but did not elaborate.

Premier Yousuf Raza Gilani, in a statement issued by his office, said the "time has come when the nation will decide its own destiny as the people voted for a change in the country in the February elections."

A spokesman for Musharraf - who seized power from Sharif in a bloodless military coup in 1999 and went on to become a linchpin in the US-led "war on terror" - has repeatedly denied that the president is going to resign.

Nampa-AFP

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