Some Pakistan Army generals have decided to impose an emergency in the country in the wake of the recent disturbances in the country's North West Frontier Province, the confrontation between the government at hardline clerics, and the public flak over the suspension of Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry through a presidential reference.
Abdul Rashid Ghazi, the deputy prayer leader of the Lal Masjid in Islamabad, expressed this view, but did not disclose the source of his information.
"The CJP issue has become a nightmare for the government. Some generals have decided to impose emergency in the country to defuse the tension," Ghazi was quoted by the Daily Times as saying at a press conference here.
He claimed that in a recent meeting approved by President Pervez Musharraf, the generals had decided to impose emergency in Pakistan on the pretext of increasing militancy in the country.
Ghazi said Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz had not ruled out imposition of emergency in his recent statement. He claimed that a pro-US government would be set up after imposition of the emergency.