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...conducting an effective election. True, there were irregularities, and just how free and fair the election really was will be the subject of ongoing debate. But these polls satisfied the litmus test of democracy: their results are being accepted as legitimate by the Pakistani people. For that, President Pervez Musharraf deserves credit. He has made some terrible decisions in recent years (from undermining the judiciary to shackling the media) but resisting the temptation to rig this election can only be characterized as laudable. Given Musharraf's unpopularity, it came as no surprise that his party, the Pakistan Muslim League...
...that kidnapped alleged brothel workers, threatened video and music shops selling "un-Islamic" material and declared a fatwa against the popular woman tourism minister who had been photographed hugging her parachute instructor. Still, the government's attack on the madrasah last July was widely condemned. The popularity of President Pervez Musharraf was already on the wane, and the perception that he sent Pakistani troops to kill fellow Muslims sealed his fate. Even though Musharraf, who was elected to a second presidential term in October under dubious circumstances, was not running in Pakistan's Feb. 18 general election, the defeat...
...weeks ago, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said in an interview that if he ever felt that the people didn't support him, he would stand down. The Pakistani people have spoken: Musharraf's party was trounced in the Feb. 18 election, earning only 42 seats out of 272 elected positions in the National Assembly, far fewer than the parties of the recently assassinated Benazir Bhutto and former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. The question is, Will Musharraf listen? And more important, does the U. S. Administration, which has always seen him as its best ally in the war on terrorism, want...
...Bush Administration has called President Pervez Musharraf America's most important ally in the war on terrorism for so long now that it may well become the Pakistani leader's political epitaph. He may need one soon. Three days after voters in parliamentary elections overwhelmingly rejected Musharraf's ruling party - and by extension Musharraf's own presidency - White House officials are digesting the reality that their man in Islamabad might not be in power for much longer...
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has blustered and wriggled his way out of some tricky situations in the past, but the former army commando may have finally met his match. A day after Musharraf's party crashed to a humiliating defeat in parliamentary elections widely seen as a referendum on the President's rule, calls for him to step down are becoming louder and more numerous by the hour. Aitzaz Ahsan, a lawyer and opposition leader who has spent the past three months under house arrest following Musharraf's crackdown on the judiciary, told the French News Agency that the President...