Pakistan
Goodbye PML-Q!

The ruling party was roundly defeated in last week’s parliamentary election in Pakistan. Tempo’s Akmal Nasery Basral traveled to Karachi, Islamabad, Rawalpindi, and Lahore to witness the election and filed this report.

February 26, 2008

THE words were uttered as if by a fortuneteller. “Musharraf’s supporters will be defeated, I’m sure of it, Sir,” Mirza, a student at St. Andrew’s College in Rawalpindi told Tempo two days before the parliamentary election on February 18. “Yes, the whole Pakistan hates him,” added Khushbakht, Mirza’s colleague, referring to President Pervez Musharraf. Mirza’s other colleagues joined in the chorus. “Qof has no conscience and has

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