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PML-Q Names Candidate for PM
Pakistan's pro-military government party nominated its candidate for the post of Prime Minister in the recently elected but splintered national parliament, party officials said Saturday, November 2. The Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q), which scored the highest tally with 103 seats won in the October 10 polls, formally agreed to nominate Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali.We knew that... No single party secured the simple majority required to form a government in the 342-seat house in the first polls since President Pervez Musharraf seized power in a bloodless coup in October 1999. Parties remain deadlocked some three weeks after the elections, despite frantic efforts to form coalitions. Hussain said Jamali's nomination followed consultations with the pro-government National Alliance and the Muhajir-based Mutahidda Qaumi Movement (MQM), which together control 33 seats. That makes 136 seats... The PML-Q parliamentary leader said his party did not need to enter into a coalition with the opposition Pakistan People's Party (PPP) of banned ex-premier Benazir Bhutto - which landed 80 seats, the second highest number in the polls. They don't want to ally with Benazir's party because it's so dirty... Hussain also said there would be no need for the PML-Q to coalesce with the newly-powerful Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) alliance of six Islamic parties, which won an unexpectedly high 59 seats. ... and they don't want to ally with the fundos because they're all lunatix. Glad I'm not a Pak pol... Glad I'm not a Pak, for that matter. Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2002-11-02 |
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