ISLAMABAD (AP): Pakistan's main ruling party has drafted a set of constitutional amendments that would erase the legacy of President Pervez Musharraf, its leader said.

Asif Ali Zardari said his party would present the 62-point draft to the prime minister and send copies to partners in the seven-week-old coalition government.

He provided few details, but made clear that the reforms would reverse changes made to the constitution since Musharraf seized power in a 1999 military coup.

Musharraf's opponents want to strip him of powers to dissolve parliament, fire the prime minister and appoint the heads of the armed forces.

Zardari said the package could be put to a vote in parliament within weeks, though some observers are predicting that it will quickly bog down in political horse-trading. Constitutional amendments require a two-thirds majority.

Zardari is the widower of Benazir Bhutto, whose December assassination helped her Pakistan People's Party to victory in February parliamentary elections.

The party leads a coalition government that has vowed to reduce Musharraf, a stalwart U.S. ally who dominated the country for eight years, to a largely ceremonial role.

But cracks have appeared in the ruling alliance, damping Western hopes that Pakistan's reversion to democracy will produce a stable government focused on tackling Islamic militancy and mounting economic problems.

Addressing a seminar on media freedom, Zardari appealed to his coalition partners for unity, evoking the sacrifices of Bhutto and her father, a former prime minister executed under an earlier military ruler, to bolster his party's claim to lead the struggle for democracy.