And press reports have speculated that the head of Honeywell Michael Bonsignore will be forced to resign after the announcement.
As a policy briefing from the International Crisis Group has recently argued, Musharaf must be forced to resign and a new neutral caretaker government appointed.
On Tuesday, he passed a crucial budget vote, but failed to muster a majority on the measure, leading to speculation that he will be forced to resign.
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Experts agree that if he is warned of possible prosecution, there is no mechanism by which he could be forced to resign as president of the Constitutional Court.
Prime Minister Jebali announced that he was ready to reshuffle his government so that it would be "technocratic" rather than political, but he may well be forced to resign, in particular because his very own party has made it known that it was not ready to accept his offer of an apolitical government.
Retired colonel, to be exact: he was forced by his superiors to resign in January after he had revealed something of the army's complicity with paramilitary groups.
That fear turned out to be more than justified when Lord Archer was later forced to resign in disgrace as the mayoral candidate after he admitted asking a witness to lie for him in libel trial.
This was to be the friends' secret, but when it came out the borrower was forced to resign and Mr Blair took the opportunity to dispose of the lender too.
McCurry argued that a memo from then director of administration David Watkins had stipulated that the computer file was not to be used for political purposes--although the fact that Watkins was subsequently forced to resign for misuse of government property did not help the press secretary's case.
In 2002, after the Chilean supreme court ruled that senile dementia made him unfit to face trial, he was forced to resign his Senate seat too (even senators-for-life need to be compos mentis).
Shoichi Nakagawa, a former Japanese finance minister, forced to resign in February after seeming to be drunk at a G7 meeting in Rome, was found dead at his home.
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