Word: musharraf
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...Gilani, a former parliamentary speaker and close aide to Bhutto, who spent four years in jail on allegations that he abused his authority during Bhutto's second term as premier in the 1990s. Pakistan's new parliament is set to vote on a Prime Minister Monday, with President Pervez Musharraf due to swear in the new premier Tuesday. Gilani's Pakistan People's Party (PPP) will form a government in coalition with the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) (PML-N) of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. Together, the two parties have well over half the seats in parliament and Gilani...
...hired Mr. Ahmad Quraishi, who, according to his “think tank,” has experience in “Immaculate Deception Creations tailored to your senses.” His website runs conspiracy theories which suggest that the world is designing a campaign to unseat Musharraf and that the U.S. was behind Benazir Bhutto’s assassination.Mr. Quraishi’s outrageous statements are not a new phenomenon: mouthpieces for collapsing dictators have frequently played their part in promoting propaganda and nonsense. Mohammad Saeed as-Sahaf (MSS), the Iraqi minister of (mis?)information, became famous...
What I and all of us here see is the Pakistani nation peacefully transferring power from President Musharraf to the elected representatives of the nation. And President Musharraf, whose policies I support as a young Pakistani, is an active agent in this civilized and peaceful process of change...
...Musharraf raised the standards of the Pakistani media by tolerating most of its very critical content of his administration. Now the Pakistani politicians have no choice but to deal with a very bold and intrusive media for the first time since our Independence...
...President Musharraf is a dictator, as your columnist and some other people believe, then he is making history because Mr. Musharraf has not only voluntarily held, on Feb. 18, the fairest election in Pakistan’s 60-year modern history, but has also made life difficult for Pakistan’s famously inept and incompetent politicians by licensing and unleashing more than 80 independent television news networks across the country...