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...minutes Haig discussed the situation with Prime Minister Thatcher in her upstairs study, then retired to the dining room for a steak-and-potatoes working meal. In all, Haig spent more than five hours with the Prime Minister. Her message, according to a top British official: "Stop talking about American even-handedness and tell the junta to obey the Security Council resolution to withdraw its forces. Only after this happens will we be prepared to talk about the future of the islands." Added a senior member of the British Cabinet: "While we want a diplomatic solution, we are absolutely determined...
Pakistan's two main opposition parties were the big 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...
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...
...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 call for Musharraf...
...Meanwhile, investigators are expected to continue their search for suspects. Merkel, due to meet Liechtenstein's Prime Minister Otmar Hasler in Berlin on Wednesday, is pressing to close any loopholes that encourage tax evasion. Whatever the outcome of that effort, it appears likely that in Germany's tax scandal, the drama has just begun...