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...quiz: name the most important issue for voters in the recent Pakistani elections. Was it the increase in terrorist attacks over the past year? President Pervez Musharraf's heavy-handed sacking of the country's top judges? Or the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto...
Actually, it was none of the above. According to former information minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed, who spoke to the United Nation's news agency IRIN this week, his party, which is aligned with Musharraf, lost the parliamentary poll "because people were angry over the fact atta [flour] was not available, that food prices were high, and due to this they felt insecure." It's a familiar lament in Pakistan these days. "We are worried about terrorism and those other things, but first we are worried about basic needs," says Islamabad nurse Nithat, 24, as she shops in the capital...
Basic foodstuffs are now so expensive and scarce that people have begun queuing for hours at government stores, where it is cheaper because of subsidies. When those same people lined up to cast their ballot last week, many of them apparently voted against Musharraf's ruling party. "It played a very important role," says Saeed Chaudhry, an economics lecturer at the National University of Modern Languages. "Hungry people are not happy people...
...political manipulation in Pakistan’s 2002 elections that led to Islamists coming to power in two provinces and gaining 59 seats in the National Assembly. This fraud was the work of the America’s supposedly unfaltering ally in the War on Terror, General (ret.) Pervez Musharraf and his desire to paint an image of Pakistan as an extremely dangerous, unstable country ready to fall into the hands of extremists the moment he leaves. Musharraf pretends that he is the only hope for the US in Pakistan. Closer analysis, however, suggests that his claims are far from...
...That's an argument long made by Pakistan's secular parties in their push for an end to Musharraf's reign. The coming months will surely see it tested...