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Fundos to run NWFP...
In a surprising landslide victory, the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal won an convincing majority by securing 48 seats in the 99-seat NWFP Assembly on Thursday. Amid reports of recounting in certain seats, the overall picture that emerged according to unofficial results gave the MMA a clear-cut majority to form a government on its own in the NWFP Assembly. The MMA has said it would soon meet in Peshawar to chalk out its strategy regarding formation of government in the NWFP. MMA leader Qazi Hussain Ahmad told reporters in Peshawar the alliance was capable of forming a government on its own in the NWFP and would not to enter into a coalition with any other group or party. "We can do it ourselves," he said. "This is a revolution," a triumphant MMA leader Qazi Hussain told a gathering in Peshawar amid vociferous slogans of Allah-o-Akbar (Allah is Great). "We will restrain ourselves from confrontation. But we will not allow American bases on our land, nor will we let American system or Western culture," he said. Looks like they're planning on taking the first steps toward an autonomous — and eventually independent — Pashtunistan, under its own khalifate. Nice, knotty problem for Perv to deal with... Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2002-10-11 |
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