Pakistan: Feeling edgy before next week’s elections
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In Pakistan, parliamentary elections that will determine which party will control the government, and who will become the next prime minister, are scheduled for next Monday. The voting will take place in the aftermath of the assassination of politician Benazir Bhutto, the former head of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), who had returned to her homeland in October of last year after years in exile and was killed on December 27 after appearing at a rally in Rawalpindi. Although the Bush administration continues to issue utterances about supporting democracy, Washington has not stopped its generous funding of the regime of Pakistan’s democracy-crushing dictator, President Pervez Musharraf. What tricks might Musharraf and his minions try to play to manipulate the elections? Will – or can- they really be free and fair?
admin @ February 17, 2008