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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...
During the 30-day election campaign, both major candidates doled out 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...
...Yahya Qureshi, President...
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...assuring them that she has no current plans for further nationalization of industries and by warning labor to eliminate crippling strikes. In a belated effort to nudge India's notoriously slothful bureaucracy, the government has been cracking down on civil service inefficiency. Minister of State Mohammed Shafi Qureshi paid a surprise visit to the railway headquarters just after the working day began. Finding that 150 employees were not yet at their desks, he locked out the stragglers for the rest...