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Are you saying that Pakistan will be a slave under the brave leadership of PPP and PML (N) in power? Surely not. Can’t the leaders of these parties oust President Musharaf themselves without waiting for USA to ask President Musharaf to kindly leave.? 
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so you are agreeing that the so-called greatest and brave leader was indeed getting directed by 2:00AM calls, cool 
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There are some positives and negatives in the current situation.
POSITIVE: The arch enemies (PPPP & PMLN) looking forward to work together
NEGATIVE: Its like two corrupt parties joining hands
In light of this negative side, we need an opposition, to keep things in check. In the absence of any viable opposition, we need a president with a stick. I know just a person for this job who would never play dummy. His name is Pervez Musharraf. :).
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Nope. These were allegations posted by the anti-Musharaf league on GS. Just like their accustaions of the elections being rigged. They have no excuses anymore so they are clutching on straws and hoping the USA will make 2 a.m calls and ask President Musharaf to leave, as the democratically elected parties (PPP and PML (N) have no power to oust President Musharaf themselves. 
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I think you missed out on the latest news. AAZ says he is not interested. 
PPP aiming at consensus government
PPP to try persuade the party of Nawaz Sharif
to join its government [AFP]
The Pakistan People’s Party has said it will try to form a coalition goverment without the pro-Musharraf Pakistan Muslim League-Q.
“We will form a government of national consensus which will take along every democratic force,” Asif Ali Zardari, the party’s co-chairman told a news conference in Islamabad on Tuesday.
The PPP won the most seats in the national assembly in Monday’s election, while President Pervez Musharraf’s supporters in the PML-Q trailed a distant third.
“For now, the decision of the party is that we are not interested in any of those people who are part and parcel of the last government,” Zardari, the widower of assassinated former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, said.
He said the PPP would try to persuade the party of Nawaz Sharif, the prime minister whom Musharraf overthrew in 1999, to join the PPP in power.
Ruling party defeated
Meanwhile, partial elections results have shown that opposition parties won enough seats to form a new government .
Tariq Azeem, spokesman for the Pakistan Muslim League-Q (PML-Q), which backed Musharraf announced on Tuesday that the party would “accept the verdict of the nation”.
“We officially concede defeat,” he said.
Several of the leading PML-Q candidates, including its chief, lost their seats in Monday’s election and unofficial results, announced on state television, showed they could not attain a parliamentary majority.
“This is the basic spirit of democracy,” Azeem said. “We believe the elections were free and fair and everybody must accept the decision for the betterment of Pakistan.”
Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, head of the PML-Q, said that his party accepted the result and “will sit on opposition benches”.
With counting in from 257 constituencies, PML-Q and its allies had taken a total of 57 seats.
The Pakistan People’s party (PPP), the party of Benazir Bhutto, the opposition leader assassinated in December last year, had 85 seats, according to preliminary results.
The PML-N gained 65 seats, with PML-Q, smaller parties and independents taking the rest, state television said.
Full results were not expected until late on Tuesday or early Wednesday.
Meanwhile, Nawaz Sharif was among those who called on Musharraf to step down.
Sharif told reporters in the eastern city of Lahore that “Musharraf has said he would quit when people tell him. People have now given their verdict”.
However, Major General Rashid Qureshi, the presidential spokesman, rejected the demand.
He said: “They are way off in their demands. This is not the election for president. President Musharraf is already elected for five years.”
Aitzaz Ahsan, a former minister and lawyer, currently detained, also asked Musharraf to quit.
Ahsan has been under detention since Musharraf imposed a state of emergency last November, sacking Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, the chief justice and other judges to clear legal obstacles to his second presidential term.
Ahsan led Chaudhry’s legal fight against his suspension by Musharraf in March 2007.
“He [Musharraf] is the most hated man in the country and he must resign, there is no other way.”
The lawyer also called on Musharraf to reinstate sacked members of the country’s judiciary.
“If they are not reinstated by the 9th of March then we will march on Islamabad, the lawyers and the judges,” he said.
Musharraf has said he would work with the new government regardless of which party wins.
Pakistan vote: At a glance
Pakistan has 81 million registered voters, out of a population of 160 million people.
Voters choose 272 members of the National Assembly, or lower house of parliament, for a five-year term.
Another 60 seats are reserved for women and 10 for religious minorities.
There are 106 parties, 15 of which were represented in the last parliament.
More than 60,000 polling stations were set up across the country.
Key issues include restoration of a full civilian government, reinstatement of sacked judges, rising militancy, economy and high unemployment.
“I will give them full co-operation as president, whatever is my role,” he said after voting in Rawalpindi.
But with the support of smaller groups and independent candidates, the opposition could now gain the two-thirds majority in parliament needed to impeach the president.
Electoral violence
Opposition parties had feared the polls would be rigged, but analysts from Washington-based Strategic Forecasting said the elections “seem to have been decently free and fair”.
Sarwar Bari, of the non-profit Free and Fair Elections Network, said his group’s 20,000 election observers reported a voter turnout of about 35 per cent, the same as in the 1997 election and the lowest in Pakistan’s history.
Ayaz Baig, the election commissioner in Punjab, estimated the turnout there to be at between 30 per cent and 40 per cent, slightly lower than in the 2002 election.
In Baluchistan and Sindh provinces, turnout was estimated at about 35 per cent, officials said.
Although fear and possible apathy kept millions of voters at home on Monday, Talat Hussein from Aaj TV said turnout was similar to previous years.
“Going by previous trends in Pakistan it is not that disappointing. At the end of the day, the voting did pick up and 42 per cent is not exactly a big disappointment,” Hussein told Al Jazeera.
The PPP said 15 of its members had been killed and hundreds more injured in scattered violence “deliberately engineered to deter voters”.
In northwest Pakistan on Tuesday, witnesses said more than 2,000 tribesmen blocked the main highway from Peshawar to the Afghan border, protesting that their favoured candidate had been defeated by electoral fraud.
At least 24 people were killed in election-related violence, mostly in Punjab province.
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Nope. These were allegations posted by the anti-Musharaf league on GS.
No, there were actual reports of Mushy getting the thrashing at 2:00AM, not by guppies :p
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Just like their **accustaions of the elections being rigged. **They have no excuses anymore so they are clutching on straws and hoping the USA will make 2 a.m calls and ask President Musharaf to leave, as the democratically elected parties (PPP and PML (N) have no power to oust President Musharaf themselves. :D
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People feared elections will be rigged just like 2002 elections were :p
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Like the Presidential Spokesman Maj Gen Retd Rashid Qureshi said, "This wasn't the Presidential election..."
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Well, there is two way for Musharraf to step down. Either he decides that he is fed up or parliament get together with 2/3 majority to impeach him before he sack the parliament and call for another election.
Actually, it seems that real game is going to start now once PPP would be in Islamabad and would be working with Musharraf. Reason is that, both have similar agenda for Pakistan and thus there would not be any party that would do all bending game to stop things from rolling what in direction what President wants to see in Pakistan.
Saleem bhai, aap ki posts ko kya howa..muje lag raha hai aap ko bara ghera sadma pooncha, uski waja se yeh aap ki posts bhi "tussss" ho gayi. Bechare....
I was expecting huge posts on how Musharraf can maintain his kuris for the next 5 years.
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Saleem bhai, aap ki posts ko kya howa..muje lag raha hai aap ko bara ghera sadma pooncha, uski waja se yeh aap ki posts bhi "tussss" ho gayi. Bechare....
Yaar come on do you have rub it in? Saleem bha is sad. Allah talla unke sadness dorr kerain or Pakistan ko achi sei achi democracy daain. :D
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Long live people’s democracy in Pakistan 
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Saleem bhai, aap ki posts ko kya howa..muje lag raha hai aap ko bara ghera sadma pooncha, uski waja se yeh aap ki posts bhi "tussss" ho gayi. Bechare.... I was expecting huge posts on how Musharraf can maintain his kuris for the next 5 years.
May dil kee baat likhtaa hoon
Tum kewn lafzoon ko gintay ho?
Kabhie chand lafz hee kafi hain
Tum yea kaisa gila kartay ho? :)
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Musharraf will hang in there like a dirty shirt until he's pushed out by the overwhelming power of the people of Pakistan..he is quickly running out of options..
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Like the Presidential Spokesman Maj Gen Retd Rashid Qureshi said, "This wasn't the Presidential election..."
He is probably sharing the drugs with Mushy. Of course it wasn't "presidential" elections, but people have voted parties who have been opposing Mushy, perhaps Mushy was following US presidential elections more closely than elections in his own country.
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Wah Wah wah Saleem bhai, aap analysis ka award to naih jeet paye.
Me aap ko shaiyri ke liye award dena chata hon 
Abh ainda se mehrbaani karke shair-o-shairyi main post kya kare.
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Thanks
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YES he should step down immediately! for humanity sake, he has sucked the blood and money more then enough...now he should leave his greed!
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