Word: benazir
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...Pakistanis have shown a renewed commitment to participating in a democracy. Despite the threat of terrorism - a very real concern given recent attacks on political rallies and the assassination of Benazir Bhutto - over 45% of eligible Pakistanis turned out to cast their votes, considerably more than the number that voted in previous general elections in 2002 and 1997. Under the circumstances, this was an impressive level of engagement. And in terms of sheer numbers, it was massive: 36 million Pakistanis voted, more than the entire population of either Iraq or Afghanistan...
...politicians wrestle to build new coalitions in the aftermath of the parliamentary polls, it would seem that the worst of Pakistan's struggles are over. With no party achieving a majority, the opposition will have to work together. If the Pakistan People's Party of the recently assassinated Benazir Bhutto can come to an agreement with Nawaz Sharif, the former Prime Minister who was overthrown by Musharraf in 1999, then the opposition may be able to muster the two-thirds of seats necessary to try to impeach the President. The election result is clearly a repudiation of Musharraf's eight...
...Pakistan's long border with Afghanistan, and a newly unified militant group is hounding the military with devastating success. Baitullah Mehsud, the leader of the group and al-Qaeda's viceroy in the region, has been blamed for last December's suicide-bomb attack that killed former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. Twelve out of 14 suspects arrested in January for planning terrorist attacks in Spain are Pakistani; all are thought to have trained in the country's tribal areas. Sixty suicide bombings in Pakistan last year left at least 770 people dead and nearly 1,600 injured...
...felt that the people didn't support him, he would stand down. The Pakistani people have spoken: Musharraf's party was trounced in the Feb. 18 election, earning only 42 seats out of 272 elected positions in the National Assembly, far fewer than the parties of the recently assassinated Benazir Bhutto and former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. The question is, Will Musharraf listen? And more important, does the U. S. Administration, which has always seen him as its best ally in the war on terrorism, want...
...Musharraf is not about to comply willingly with such demands, but he could see his hand forced once the new parliament assembles in the next few weeks. The Pakistan People's Party (PPP) of assassinated former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) led by former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif together won more than half the 272 open seats in Pakistan's parliament. Leaders of both parties said Tuesday that they would try to form a coalition; if they can win support from two-thirds of the parliament, they could try to impeach Musharraf...