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...drunk, and seemed unable to read the identification numbers on registration cards. Meanwhile the two only inkpads available for voters to stamp their ballots were drying up. Voters had to return several times to the registration desk in order to moisten their stamp and mark their ballots. Khawaja Khurshid Alam, a polling agent for Musharraf's party, shook his head with disgust. "These are untrained persons, they don't know how to work in polling stations. People come and they wait and they say, 'why are you wasting our time?' so they go home." While accusations of organized election fraud...
...wasn't just party leaders who were detained. Khurshid Ahmed Khan, a flour mill owner dressed in a simple shalwar kameeze, had started out from Peshawar on Sunday with a party of some 800 supporters. By the time they reached the airport, the party was down to one. All the others had been stopped at barricades blocking the roads into the capital. The only reason he was able to get to the airport, he says, was that he had had the foresight to buy an outgoing air ticket that day and was, thus, technically a passenger. He called himself...
...Sharif and Benazir Bhutto, who have both been exiled. If Musharraf can prove that he is committed to democracy, Pakistanis may well choose to keep him in power. Armed with such a mandate, Musharraf would be better poised to tackle militancy in the tribal areas. Pakistan's Foreign Minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri concedes that the peace agreement with the tribes in Waziristan has "weaknesses" that the government is addressing. An official says Islamabad intends to send two new brigades of troops to seize back the initiative...
...meeting with Pakistan that had been scheduled for this week. Singh said he warned Pakistan's leaders "that if the acts of terrorism are not controlled, it is exceedingly difficult for any government to carry forward what may be called a normalization and peace process." Pakistan's Foreign Minister, Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri, countered such criticisms by saying, "There should not be a knee-jerk reaction that everything happening in India starts in Pakistan." But in New Delhi on Friday, protesters burned effigies of Musharraf in the streets. Bhatt, who has spent the past three years cultivating Indo-Pakistan friendship through...
...says Faisal Edhi, trustee of Karachi-based NGO the Edhi Foundation. "There is a shortage of doctors and nurses, so people now have to travel far to get to the doctors in makeshift medical camps." Because people have no money for fuel, they can't cook meals, adds Rana Khurshid Amed, a Neelum Valley forestry official, "so they look to the government and to God for help. It's only God who is there. Let's see how many people survive the snow...