Pakistan’s embattled President Pervez Musharraf is to be impeached and forced to step down, it has been confirmed. The announcement will be made at a press conference later today. In the early hours of this morning, the leaders of Pakistan’s main coalition parties, Asif Ali Zardari and Nawaz Sharif agreed to impeach the president and restore dozens of judges fired by him last year. The ruling parties were committed to reinstating the judges, a spokesman for former Prime Minister Sharif said. Ahsan Iqbal told AP that President Musharraf should have resigned after the defeat of his allies in February elections.. But he provided no details ahead of a news conference by Mr Sharif and Mr Zardari. The decision concludes two days of talks between the two men. Rifts over whether to impeaach the president and how to restore the judges have weakened the four month old government and hampered its efforts to formulate policies to counter rising Islamic militancy and a slew of economic problems.