Word: nawaz
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...winners in Monday's parliamentary elections, and they plan to use their gains to form a coalition government that could threaten President Pervez Musharraf's weakening grip on power. The Pakistani People's Party (PPP) of assassinated former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif have, together, won more than half the seats so far counted, easily defeating the Musharraf-aligned PML-Q party. If the PPP and PML-N win two-thirds of parliamentary seats, they will be in a position to impeach Musharraf, who on Tuesday said...
...trimmed with black feather boas. "I decided to do this for my leader," he said of his masterpiece. "Sharif is going the right way for Pakistan." Musharraf, he says, brought Pakistan suicide bombers and inflation. "Everything now is costing more, so we pray for the success of Mian Nawaz Sharif." Given the delicacy of his decorative creation, there is one more thing he is praying for: "Last night I prayed to god, 'please don't let it rain.'" Yet that outcome would hardly rank against the direr consequences this vote could bring to Pakistan in coming days...
...Armed clashes between rival political parties were reported across the country as polls opened; scores were injured and at least six killed. In Lahore, five party workers, including one candidate for former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League party, were killed on the eve of elections. On Saturday more than 40 Pakistan People's Party workers were killed when a bomb exploded at a rally in Pakistan's troubled North West Frontier Province. Sakina Bibi, 57, was undisturbed by the threat of violence as she waited patiently in line at a women's polling station in Rawalpindi...
However, a few unofficial reports have begun to trickle in. And in a small number of districts, things appear to be going well for both the late Benazir Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party (PPP) and for former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N). In some districts where the PPP appears to have won, party workers are throwing impromptu celebrations; Pakistani TV has shown people dancing in the streets and tossing confetti. And Sharif's party appears to be doing well in all urban areas, a welcome surprise for the former Prime Minister. One incumbent...
While Musharraf is not running in this election - he was controversially reelected president by the National Assembly in October - his fate is still very much reflected in the fate of his PML-Q, a faction that split from Nawaz Sharif's PML-N after Musharraf, then a general, overthrew the then Prime Minister in a 1999 coup. In the unlikely event that the president's party dominates the polling, Musharraf will then have to contend with millions of Pakistanis crying foul. If the opposition parties, lead by Sharif and Asif Ali Zardari, Bhutto's husband, gain enough votes, they could...