Islamabad (PTI): "A silent revolution" -- that is how the Pakistani media on Tuesday described the resignation of President Pervez Musharraf whose "belief that he alone was a saint and all others villains" proved his undoing.

Pakistan's leading newspapers said Musharraf's exit was "inevitable" albeit delayed and asked the PPP-PML(N) government to attend to the country's problems and relations with India and Afghanistan after the "hurdle" is gone.

Welcoming Musharraf's decision, 'The Nation' newspaper said "the day climaxing a silent revolution will go down as a major landmark of our history and may leave some important lessons for those who had been used to nursing Bonapartist notions."

"After Musharraf's exit, the ruling coalition will have to accept the responsibility of running the government because from now on it would not be able to find anyone else to shift the blame for its failures," it added.

"Exit Musharraf" -- said the editorial in the leading English daily 'Dawn' on the resignation, while commenting that the former Army ruler had "bowed to the inevitable".

"Most will wonder why it took the president so long; some will rue the lost opportunity to impeach him. What is incontestable is that the country must move on from this crisis quickly," it said.