Word: makhdoom
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Dates: during 2002-2002
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...just 172 of the 329 votes cast. And even that thinnest of margins was suspect: a rule forbidding party defections was waived at Musharraf's behest, so that 10 PPP legislators could switch sides and back the army's man. "Democratic values have failed today," lamented Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi, the PPP's losing prime ministerial candidate, who claims his supporters were either threatened or offered top government jobs in return for crossing over. These legislators countered that they jumped over altruistically to break the deadlock on choosing a Prime Minister...
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