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...While Musharraf is not running - he was re-elected president by the National Assembly in October - his fate is still very much reflected in the fate of his Pakistan Muslim League Qaid party, a faction that split from Sharif's party after Musharraf, then a general, overthrew the then Prime Minister in a 1999 coup. If the Q party dominates the polling, Musharraf's tenure is secure. But widespread antipathy for his regime may derail his next term in power. If the opposition parties, lead by Sharif and Bhutto's widower Asif Zardari, gain enough votes, they could call...
...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 belonging to President Pervez Musharraf's Pakistan Muslim League-Qaid (PML-Q), the winner of every election for the past 20 years, has apparently been routed by Nawaz Sharif's candidate. "I think the initial results seem to be quite favorable," Sharif told TIME over the phone. "The trend is good." Fears of vote-rigging, however, are dampening the initial...
...television, and half are illiterate, making personal appearances essential to gain votes. Accusations are rife that the polls will be rigged - Bhutto was planning to present investigative documents detailing government plans for skewing the vote in its favor when she died. Nobody was expecting Musharraf's Pakistan Muslim League-Qaid (PML-Q) to receive a landslide; rather, Bhutto's report suggested, rigging would ensure that the government party would simply get enough votes to retain a majority in parliament. Analysts predict that if polls are indeed conducted with no manipulation, Bhutto's PPP will gain the most votes, followed...
Lonely Splendor. A high Indian official, one of the few visitors who saw Jinnah during his Lahore illness, said: "When I started talking, I noticed that the Qaid-e-Azam looked distracted. He was constantly touching his right finger tips with his thumb as if he were silently counting something. Suddenly, without any reference to what I was saying, the Qaid-e-Azam said: 'It's a fraud...
...considerably surprised. But realizing that he was not referring to me, I continued with my business,, After a good deal more of counting the Qaid-e-Azam said: 'Swindle.' Then again, 'Swindle -regular swindle.' 'Fraud . .. swindle . . . cheat,' came in quick succession. Then other words of a less statesmanly nature followed...