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...Party leader Benazir Bhutto's line last week, and, to an extent, the election results bore her out. After a bitter name-calling campaign, Bhutto and her P.P.P. gained 87 seats in the 217-seat National Assembly -- a plurality far short of a majority -- while her rival, Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif, leader of the Pakistan Muslim League, took...
There is in fact no guarantee that Bhutto, who was Prime Minister from 1988 to 1990 before being ousted by presidential fiat, can form a government. As soon as the election results were in, she and Nawaz Sharif began negotiations to win the support of regional splinter parties as well as independents, who garnered the balance of Assembly seats. Both claimed they had the backing to form a government when the Assembly convenes for a secret parliamentary leadership ballot Oct. 19. But Bhutto was widely seen as having the edge...
Pakistanis might have preferred a third choice, Moeen Qureshi, a former World Bank vice president who was caretaker Prime Minister during the three months before the election. Qureshi, a nonelected official, was imported from his home in Washington to ensure a fair campaign. He took office after Nawaz Sharif, like Bhutto three years earlier, had been forced out following a contretemps with President Ghulam Ishaq Khan, in a deal brokered by General Abdul Waheed Kakar, the army chief of staff. During his brief tenure, Qureshi cut tariffs, reformed tax collection and exposed some of the corruption that had flourished under...
...lavish promises to potential supporters. Bhutto offered a new joint parnership between the government and business and paid lip service to Qureshi's reforms, but she pandered to feudal landowners with promises of new price supports for agricultural commodities. She also pitched heavily for the support of women. Nawaz Sharif stood on his record of having launched privatization and several grandiose development projects, which have left the country nearly bankrupt...
Behind the mayhem is rebel mujahedin leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, who apparently decided he could not afford to allow President Burhanuddin Rabbani's interim government to gain much stability. On Aug. 2, Pakistan's Prime Minister Mian Nawaz Sharif was due to arrive in Kabul, and Hekmatyar's rockets closed the airport. On Aug. 8, Rabbani was to fly to Tehran. The attacks intensified again. Since he was due in Pakistan last week for meetings with Pakistan's Nawaz Sharif, it was predictable that the rockets would come in more heavily than ever. Last week's barrage left 600 people dead...