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eppur_se_muova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 09:52 PM
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Busharraf ? Pakistani leader has more in common with Bu**sh** than we thought
Check out the title of the link on BBC's News page:

Days numbered?
Even Musharraf's own party is giving him scant mention

and the actual article:

High stakes for Musharraf in poll

By Chris Morris
BBC News, Gujrat, Pakistan

In the garden of a vast, colonnaded house in Gujrat, election agents from Pakistan's Muslim League-Q (PML-Q) party gather for one last pep talk from their leaders.

Just off the Grand Trunk Road, surrounded by the lush green fields of rural Punjab, this is the home of a powerful political clan - the Chaudrys.

For the last few years they have run the main political base of the PML-Q, the party closely allied with President Pervez Musharraf.

But at recent election rallies the party's candidates have made no mention of the man who has dominated Pakistani politics for a decade.
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But there is no avoiding the fact that, this year, retired General Musharraf is not a name that will win his party many votes.

more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7249644.stm
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