Word: unpopular
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...coming weeks and months are likely to be tumultuous, as coalitions are hammered out and an increasingly unpopular Musharraf faces ever louder calls to depart. And the deeper economic and social problems Pakistan faces will not be easy to solve. But great uncertainty and huge obstacles are familiar to Pakistanis. What is less familiar is the feeling that now lingers in the aftermath of the election: a cautious, soul-gladdening optimism...
...West at the expense of his own people. "There has been a failure in our Islamic obligation to condemn people like Fazlullah and Mehsud," admits Al-Ghazali, the imam of Islamabad's Faisel Mosque. "But you know the man who is championing this anti-extremism cause is a very unpopular man. Musharraf is identified with this cause so much, that if they initiate a move against this extremism, they are perceived to be supporting the government and Musharraf...
...presidency seemed surreal and unlikely to the Islamic delegates, a McCain presidency was the more realistic expectation. And so the most startling bit of news at the conference was a poll about, of all things, U.S. public attitudes, presented by Steven Kull of WorldPublicOpinion.org. The war in Iraq was unpopular, of course, and 63% of respondents also believed that Bush's peremptory militarism had made America less secure; 75% wanted to work to improve relations with Iran through diplomacy rather than threats. If those attitudes hold, McCain's rude bellicosity faces an uphill climb. It is likely, of course, that...
...According to results reported thus far, the PPP has won 87 seats in the 272-seat parliament and the PML-N 66, a combined total of 153. The ruling PML-Q party, badly tainted by its association with the widely unpopular President, has seen support plummet and has won just 38. Most of Musharraf's cabinet, including his party president, speaker of the house and several other close allies, appear to have lost their reelection bids. Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, head of the PML-Q, conceded defeat. "We accept the results with an open heart" and "will sit on opposition benches...
...that it is one man's army. One man has total control over it and that is the Chief of Army Staff. The army does not think except the thoughts of the Chief of Army Staff. Now Musharraf is no longer the chief. But he remains the most unpopular, in fact the most hated man in the country. Stick with him and a lot of that hate will get passed on to the army. And it's not just unpopularity. It's visceral hatred. Because of the way he has dealt with so many things...