PAKISTAN'S ousted prime minister, Ms Benazir Bhutto, said yesterday she was confident the Supreme Court would restore her back into power within a month.
Brimming with self assurance, Ms Bhutto said in a television interview she will lodge an appeal with the Supreme Court in the next two days, asking that she be restored to power.
Ms Bhutto said the court's decision in 1993 to overrule an order sacking the former prime minister, Mr Nawaz Sharif, gave her confidence she would be reinstated, as "the charges against me are even flimsier and the Supreme Court should restore the assembly within a month", she said.
President Farooq Leghari dismissed Ms Bhutto's government last Tuesday, citing corruption, mismanagement and extra judicial killings among other accusations which he said had virtually paralysed the government.
The speaker of the dissolved National Assembly filed a separate legal petition in the Supreme Court yesterday, challenging Leghari's order.
Ms Bhutto, wearing a beige scarf on her head and a purple silk shalwar kameez, said she considered her sacking to be "a constitutional coup, a presidential coup and an act against democracy".
. Pakistan's caretaker government reverted to a six day working week on Monday after two years of a five day week introduced by Ms Bhutto.