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2008-02-20 India-Pakistan

Mullahs lose NWFP control after five years

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Posted by Fred 2008-02-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top
File under: Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal

#1 Oh my gosh. Is it...is it...sanity?

Posted by anymouse">anymouse 2008-02-20 01:54|| 2008-02-20 01:54|| Front Page Top

#2 Didn't the Islamists say they were boycotting this election? Aren't elections haram in Islam anyway? (Except to get power that is, it's a one-way valve.)

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2008-02-20 07:01|| 2008-02-20 07:01|| Front Page Top

#3 Qazi's mob boycotted, Fazl's mob contested

Posted by Albemarle Cleaque8456 2008-02-20 07:52|| 2008-02-20 07:52|| Front Page Top

#4 Time for the mullahs to go to the mattresses?

Posted by tu3031 2008-02-20 08:39|| 2008-02-20 08:39|| Front Page Top

#5 1. Yeah, MMA was divided IIUC
2. This may have been a cleaner election than 2002
3. Around the Islamic world, from Algeria to Gaza to Paki, Islamists win elections on promises of doing better than the secular (often socialist or ex-socialist) parties. Less corrupt, more efficient. When they fail to deliver, theres a tendency to toss them out. In Pakiland, unlike Gaza, the state overall was able to implement a new democratic election.

Posted by liberalhawk 2008-02-20 09:40|| 2008-02-20 09:40|| Front Page Top

#6 out with the corrupt and extremist MMA

in with the corrupt AFP

Posted by mhw">mhw 2008-02-20 10:49|| http://hypocrisy-incorporated.blogspot.com/]">[http://hypocrisy-incorporated.blogspot.com/] 2008-02-20 10:49|| Front Page Top

#7 This is why we need one man one vote one time.

Posted by imam oron 2008-02-20 13:35|| 2008-02-20 13:35|| Front Page Top

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