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...refused to concede defeat late yesterday, and accused President Ghulam Ishaq Khan and the army-backed caretaker government of large-scale vote-rigging in what most analysts and opinion polls predicted would be a close contest...
Ishaq Khan and the caretaker government of Prime Minister Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi portrayed Ms. Bhutto as an enemy of Islam, a traitor who sold state secrets to neighboring India and an American puppet...
...Islamabad the caretaker government of Prime Minister Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi was startled by the aid cutoff. Some Pakistani officials do not believe Washington is serious, because it needs Islamabad's help in the gulf. Others chalk it up to irritation on Capitol Hill at the dismissal of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto on corruption charges. If elections are open and fair, they believe, the "political problems in Washington" will ease...
Benazir Bhutto had always suspected that her term as Pakistan's Prime Minister would end abruptly, probably at the hands of the country's military. Even so, the news came as a shock to Bhutto last week. At 4:30 Monday afternoon, President Ghulam Ishaq Khan telephoned the Prime Minister at her official residence in Islamabad to inform her that he was dismissing her 20- month-old government under Article 58 of the constitution for "internal dissensions" and allegedly "horse trading for personal gain," among other things. "I can't believe it," she said as she hung up the phone...
Accordingly, said the President, he had dissolved the National Assembly and declared a state of emergency. To run the government as interim Prime Minister, he said, he had chosen Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi, 59 the leader of the opposition in the dissolved assembly and an inveterate enemy of Bhutto's. Despite that stern action, Ishaq stressed his commitment to democracy and promised new elections on Oct. 24 as "an opportunity for the people to restore their representatives' accountability." Later that night the country's four provincial assemblies were dissolved as well...