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Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Musharraf concedes imminent defeat

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Sens. Joseph R. Biden Jr. (left), Delaware Democrat; Chuck Hagel, Nebraska Republican; and John Kerry, Massachusetts Democrat, gathered at a Lahore polling station, were among the foreign observers at yesterday's elections in Pakistan.
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EARLY LEAD: Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's party and slain leader Benazir Bhutto's party had nearly 70 percent of the early vote in yesterday's parliamentary elections.
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EARLY LEAD: Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's party and slain leader Benazir Bhutto's party had nearly 70 percent of the early vote in yesterday's parliamentary elections.Agence France-Presse/Getty Images
Pakistani women showed their identification before casting ballots at a polling station in Karachi yesterday in an election that could determine the political fate of President Pervez Musharraf.
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ELECTION RESULTS: Votes were being counted by hand in Pakistan's 64,000 polling stations, with results from yesterday's parliamentary election expected late today. Early reports showed President Pervez Musharraf's faction of the Pakistan Muslim League trailing far behind opposition parties with less than 30 percent of the vote.

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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The party of Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf conceded today it was headed for huge losses, as ballot counting continued following yesterday's parliamentary election.

A landslide of voter support for two main opposition parties also prompted renewed calls from the opposition for Mr. Musharraf, a crucial ally in the U.S. war on terror, to step down.

Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, head of Mr. Musharraf's Pakistan Muslim League-Q party (PML-Q), told AP Television News, We accept the results with an open heart and will sit on opposition benches in the new parliament.

Early returns showed the PML-Q trailing a distant third behind the parties of former Prime Ministers Nawaz Sharif and Benazir Bhutto, who was slain Dec. 27.

The private Geo TV network said the two opposition parties so far have won 153 seats, more than half of the 272-seat National Assembly.

The PML-Q party was a distant third with 38 seats. A ream of party stalwarts and former Cabinet ministers lost their bids to remain in Parliament.

A two-thirds majority in Parliament would give the opposition the power to force from office Mr. Musharraf, who was elected in the fall by outgoing lawmakers to a new five-year term as president.

Mr. Sharif, who was ousted in a 1999 coup by Mr. Musharraf, stopped short of calling on Mr. Musharraf to step down.

However, he said Pakistani voters had given their verdict and proposed that opposition parties join forces to get rid of dictatorship, the Associated Press reported.

Final results are not expected until later today or tomorrow.

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