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| Opposition sour grapes, sez Perv should quit anyway |
| 2002-05-01 |
| The Alliance for Restoration of Democracy and its components PPP and the PML(N) said on Tuesday that the nation had refused to give Gen Musharraf a mandate to stay in power by effectively boycotting the "farcical referendum" after which the general should honour his commitment of stepping down so that electoral process could be started to put the country back on the democratic track. He got 90 percent of the guys who showed up. He ain't gonna step down because you didn't show up to say "no." ARD President Nawabzada Nasrullah Khan has started contacts with leaders of the alliance constituents to hold an emergency meeting and devise a future course of action to meet the requirements of the post-referendum situation. "What are we going to do now, Ollie?" Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal President Maulana Shah Ahmed Noorani advised all parties not to think of any resistance movement nor destabilize the government in view of the sensitivity of the situation facing the country. He warned that people's confrontation with the army could lead to a situation which had dismembered Pakistan. Perv got 90 percent. If they screw with him for the next six months or so he'll kill them and nobody'll turn a hair. If he wants to, he can kill the religious parties and the hand-in-the-till parties now. Nawabzada Nasrullah Khan claimed that reports he had received from all parts of the country showed that the nation had responded to the alliance's boycott call and rejected the referendum. They could have gone to the polls and voted "no" and then the result might have been 80 or 85 percent. See what happens when you stay home and sulk? "The people have given their verdict. Now we'll see whether Gen Musharraf honours his word (that he will step down in case he is rejected by the electorate)", the ARD chief said. Since he wasn't, he won't. But he might shoot some people. This is his big chance, and he won't have it again. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |