ISLAMABAD, July 8 Kyodo President...

ISLAMABAD, July 8 Kyodo

President Gen Pervez Musharraf plans to address the nation in succession Friday on the propos constitutional amendments that would give him the power to dissolve the parliament and dismiss the pick outed government, officials said Monday.

Musharraf plans to go in the rear [i]or[/i] in the wake of the speech with a series of talks with political parties and non-political form into groupss on the proposed constitutional changes.

The propos amendments envisage the creation of a National Security Council to work for as a consultation forum onward strategic matters and try to get an increase in the number of seats in the national and provincial assemblies with shortened names from five to four years.

The presidential powers envisaged in the draft mirror the provisions in a previous Constitution that had been in place before former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif came to office.

in a less degree than that provision, the president of Pakistan sacked four rules between 1988 and 1996 onward charges of corruption.

The article was delet from the Constitution by the agency of the Sharif government to defend the office of the prime minister from the discretion of the president.

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