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| India-Pakistan |
| Perv's man named as PM... |
| 2002-11-21 |
| Pakistan's new parliament today chose a prime minister from the main pro-government party, rejecting a candidate of fundamentalist religious parties and ending a protracted struggle over the shape of a new ruling coalition more than five weeks after national elections. They're not putting the lunatics in charge of the asylum? Bet they're frosted over that! Zafarullah Khan Jamali, a So what'd Perv do? The outcome came as a relief to the military government of President Pervez Musharraf. It signaled the emergence of a ruling coalition led by Jamali's party, the pro-government Quaid-e-Azam faction of the Pakistan Muslim League, and including independent lawmakers as well as defectors from the opposition Pakistan People's Party led by former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. The new coalition, analysts say, is unlikely to challenge Musharraf's alliance with Washington or his domestic policies, including gradual economic reform. They noted, however, that the coalition's slender majority means that the new government could prove unstable and prone to early collapse. Qazi should be firing up the ol' spittle machine any time now... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #1 Reminder: only ten parliamentarians took their oath of office in reference to Mushareff's shariah hopping, "Legal Framework Order." The others took oath under the 1973 shariah' constitution. Pakistanis wanted an extremist Muslim government, and they got it. |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2002-11-21 16:10:15 |