Jamali (PML QA) - 172 votes
Rehman (MMA) - 86 votes
Qureshi (PPPP) - 70 votes
Musharrafs efforts bore fruit :)
Nice to see Maulana Sahib and Makhdoom congratulating the new premier...
This was not possible without horse trading. It would be intresting to see if the government applies it's own LFO to those members now. Remember the govt claims the LFO is a part of constitution now.
Even under the original constitution these members would lose thier seats.
Unless the govt and PPP have a deal.
Who was the person who shouted to the speaker and made it clear, if the LFO is part of the constituition, they will tear it apart and throw it away! He was awesome!
Congrats to Mr. Jamali. I Wish him & Pakistan great success!
Wish him and Pak all the best :)
PagRi didn't win, YES!
Many heartiest congratulations to Mir Zafar ullah Khan Jamali on his election as the next Prime Minister of Pakistan. A Great boost for Balochistan as well. :k: Lets wish him all the best of success, and give him the chance to govern and show results before we start passing premature judgements. We now have a National Assembly elected in the freest elections in recent history, with members elected from close to some thirty political parties (in various coalitions and groupings that is). Powerful speeches by Ejaz ul Haq, Tahir ul Qadri etc, but they ended up supporting Jamali in the end. 
Congratulations also to the MMA in consigning the PPPP (Benazir) to third place, and becoming the official opposition party in the National Assembly. Lets hope that in the coming weeks and months they continue to work constructively with the government, in reaching understandings on constitutional and governmental matters. I am sure after the initial bravado and excitement in this transition period, both sides will make necessary compromises for the long term national interest. Let’s hope so?
The PPPP ended up the biggest losers in all this. It has been relegated to third place behind the MMA, abandoned by the PML (N) who all voted for the MMA, and most damaging of all a split led by the long tern die hards of the PPP like Faisal Saleh Hayat, and Rao Sikander Iqbal. Now the PPP has a choice, to stick with BB and become a historical relic, or move forward with a new and able leadership.
The best of success to Prime Minister Jamali, and long may President Musharraf rule. :k:
Pakistan Zindabad! 
Finally…Mir Zafarullah Jamali wins the PM post, as we all had expected.
Best of luck to him and to the President Pervaiz Musharaff, as they start there own terms.
May Pakistan continue to flourish and prosper…
Pakistab Zindabaad
I hope the new PM considers dieting...
Long Live King’s Party
So what happen to Musharraf then ?
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Jamali and Khan Sahib
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Since, there’s no one to post. Let me do flooding. I hope you won’t mind, Mursalin 
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Prime Minister: Zafarullah Khan Jamali.
Accepting the vote, Jamali endorsed Musharraf’s legacy in the three years since the coup, stressing the general’s achievements in foreign and economic policy and implicitly promising more of the same.
“On the external front, because of the policy of the last three years, Pakistan has become a frontline state, Pakistan has respect and dignity,” Jamali said.
“The economy has picked up, we are about to be out of the woods,” Jamali said in a confident acceptance speech. **“Thanks to Musharraf who gave a road map and fulfilled his promise… the transfer of power is going on.”
The soft-spoken Jamali is a experienced but staid politician from the southwestern province of Baluchistan. A stout, bearded man, Jamali is a moderate Muslim who also served as a minister under military ruler Zia-ul Haq in the 1980s.
Married, with four sons and a daughter, Jamali speaks English well and is also fluent in the main local languages, including Urdu, Punjabi, Sindhi, Pashtu and Baluchi.**
Pakistan’s Religious Giant Assures Support For New Govt
ISLAMABAD, Nov. 21 (Xinhuanet)-- Pakistan’s Mutahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA), the third largest group in the parliament, on Thursday assured its support for the new government.
Maulana Fazlur Rehman, candidate for the premiership of MMA, coalition of six religious groups, made the above statement while talking to media after the prime minister’s election here on Thursday.
He said MMA, the main opposition party in the National Assembly (NA), would perform its duty responsibly and would not try to paralyse the democratic process.
The MMA would help the government in completing its tenure to promote true democracy, he added
Fazlur said MMA wants free and stable policies including foreign policy, and would not accept any dictation from abroad.
**He asked the government to utilize all resources for the benefit of the masses and to create opportunities for the unemployed.
The MMA leader further said that in the opposition they would avoid unnecessary criticism and work for the country’s sovereigntyand integrity. ** :k:
Mir Zafarullah Jamali of Pakistan Muslim League-QA(PML-QA), the largest party in the parliament, won the premier-ship on Thursday.
Staid! Just the right word to describe our new Prime Minister. :k:
Highlights
http://www.nation.com.pk/daily/221102/main/top16.htm
*MMA’s Maulana Fazlur Rehman stole the show of NA proceedings when he explained what the defectors meant by their “Zamir ki awaz” (voice of conscience). In his speech Fazl sarcastically pointed out that when the government said that MNAs were allowed to vote according to their ‘Zamir ki awaz’, it did not refer to the voice of conscience but the voice of General Zamir. Maj Gen Zamir being a top intelligence official.
*Mehmood Achakzai, the Baloch nationalist, who made a welcome entry to the parliament, was the first to enter the House on Thursday. Greeted by all the experienced parliamentarians, Achakzai remained glued to his seat during election of the Prime Minister and abstained from casting his vote. He might have explained the reasons for staying put, but he was not allowed by the Speaker to explain.
*A Balochistan National Party’s MNA-elect refused to take oath as a mark of protest when the Speaker refused to hear his protest on LFO or explain under which version of the Constitution was he to take the oath.
*Arch rivals Tahirul Qadri and Maulana Azam Tariq opted to vote for the same party - PML-Q - even though their in pre- and post-election speeches were full of anti-government rhetoric. Azam Tariq’s visible overture to Q-League candidate against his repeated assertion to cast vote only for Fazl, was significant.
*Prime Minister-elect Zafarullah Jamali pulled fellow Aitchisonian Imran Khan toward his gallery, using his mighty weight, political and otherwise, but Imran remained adamant.
- It was hard time for National Assembly Speaker Ch. Ameer who faced a bitter music for declaring the LFO (General Musharraf’s self-amended version of the Constitution) part of the Constitution without following duly defined constitutional procedure, the evening he was elected Speaker.
*Opposition members across the board, particularly Fazlur Rehman and Javed Hashmi, demanded resignation of the Speaker for being partial and violator of the sanctity of House for making ‘irresponsible remarks’ on LFO.
*Ameer found it hard to explain his position until he was advised by a member to say to that he “ reserves the ruling” about his observation on the status of LFO. Finally Ameer said: ‘I reserve the ruling” and got some relief.
*Khurshid Shah and several other PPP-P members as a last resort attempted to prevail upon Faisal Saleh or lota-in-chief as some his estranged colleagues generally call him, to come back to his party fold.
*Perhaps it was to save Faisal from changing his mind that Humayun Akhtar remained glued to his side throughout.
*The NA speaker’s congratulatory remarks that Jamali won PM election with “heavy majority” drew laughter and protest from the House; with opposition parliamentarians questioning the observation of Ameer as to how a simple majority could be construed as “heavy majority”.
*It was embarrassing for former President Farooq Leghari when the Speaker asked him to speak on the highly controversial legal status of LFO, which he declined by saying he never requested to speak on the subject.
*He was playing it safe as he probably he realized the mood of the House and did not want to become the target on opposition diatribe.
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Interesting. Thanks for the highlights. We certainly can expect interesting times ahead, now that the National Assembly is divided three ways and the PM is hanging in there by one vote. :)
Pakistan Zindabad
I sincerely hope PM Jamali will be a great leader. It was great to hear him being elected!
Is their a video of the session?
Nice to know we finally have a Balochi PM. Balochistan deserves way more representation.. My best wishes to Jamali Sahib and Pakistan…
Pakistan Zindabaaaaaaddd… :k: