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...Musharraf and the new government will not be smooth. The dynamics of emerging politics may compel PPP and its allies to isolate Musharraf." If the new coalition can get a two-thirds majority, which it has demonstrated with the choice of Gilani as Prime Minister, it could move to impeach the President...
...together. If the Pakistan People's Party of the recently assassinated Benazir Bhutto can come to an agreement with Nawaz Sharif, the former Prime Minister who was overthrown by Musharraf in 1999, then the opposition may be able to muster the two-thirds of seats necessary to try to impeach the President. The election result is clearly a repudiation of Musharraf's eight years in power, but, perhaps more importantly for Pakistan's longer-term political future and development, it appears to be a rejection of fundamentalist Islam. The religious parties, which took 11.3% of the popular vote...
...former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif together won more than half the 272 open seats in Pakistan's parliament. Leaders of both parties said Tuesday that they would try to form a coalition; if they can win support from two-thirds of the parliament, they could try to impeach Musharraf. "It is the public mandate, not me, to say that Musharraf should resign," Benazir's husband and PPP leader Asif Ali Zardari told the BBC. "Now we will take the [resignation] demand into the parliament and see which political forces join hands with...
...result that reflects voters' wishes. "All the King's men are gone, the King's party has been reduced to ashes and the King's fate is in the hands of the next parliament, which will be strong enough to strip him of his extraordinary powers or impeach him if it so chooses," wrote the editor of Lahore's influential Daily Times Najam Sethi, reflecting the surprise many Pakistanis feel. "So let us give the devil his due, even though he went about it in a particularly devilish...
...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 be in a position to impeach Musharraf, who on Tuesday said he would accept the results of the landmark poll...