Word: nawaz
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...budget during its first 14 months in power. Much of its energy was squandered feuding with the opposition. Among the first acts of Bhutto's party after coming to power was a campaign to bribe and threaten legislators in Punjab. The goal: to overthrow Bhutto's nemesis, Mian Nawaz Sharif, Punjab's chief minister, a wealthy industrialist and a close associate of Zia's. Worse yet, her Cabinet stank with corruption scandals, including allegations against her husband Asif Ali Zardari and her father-in-law Hakim Ali Zardari, who was chairman of the parliamentary public-accounts committee. With so much...
...since retaking the government. "The debt servicing is breaking our backs - debt that I didn't incur," she told TIME. "But as Prime Minister, I have to pay it back." Rumors soon spread that her government would be dismissed. "Rubbish," she said. But that is exactly what happened. Soon, Nawaz Sharif was Prime Minister again...
...Musharraf's political opponents, who include former Prime Ministers Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif, say they will work to have the President impeached or even face treason charges. Bhutto said that the end of the emergency was an "important step forward" but that Pakistan was still a long way from true democracy. Officials in Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party warned that the upcoming elections are unlikely to be free and fair and said that government machinery is already "being exploited for foul play...
Like the teenager who thought he was too cool to go to the party until he realized he was the only one left out, former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif announced Sunday that his Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) Party would contest parliamentary elections slated for January 8. In fact, like that metaphorical teenager, he may also have realized that he would have to participate in order to preserve his own cool clique...
...campaign while under house arrest; and Sharif himself has been barred from running for Prime Minister. Rumors abound of electoral rigging, ballot stuffing and vote-buying. Given the fraught campaigning atmosphere, candidates are struggling to get the public's attention. Highly publicized discussions between Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz party and former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party about a controversial call for a cross-party election boycott substitute for any kind of formalized debate. Boycotting the elections could destabilize the country, but many candidates fear that participating will legitimize the decision by Musharraf to declare...