Hindustan Times in Pakistan - PPP-Nawaz bonding signals post-poll axis
IN THIS city that is home to the army leadership, the very palpable social entente between supporters of the PPP and the PML's Nawaz faction on election day afforded a peep into what the future holds for a deeply tormented Pakistan.
Officially, 12 people died in polling widely expected to be bloody, though reports claimed some two dozen had been killed. Benazir Bhutto's widower Asif Ali Zardari said PPP alone had lost 15 men.
There was no official word on the turnout at the time of going to press. Some TV channels though, were reporting 35 per cent voting.
In Rawalpindi, voting was largely peaceful. Slogans of Jiye Bhutto rent the air as boisterous supporters of both the PPP and PML (N) rode past Liaquat Bagh, where Benazir fell to a gun-bomb attack on December 27.
A short distance away young men astride open jeeps and motorcycles swathed in party flags converged at PML-Q leader - and a close aide of President Pervez Musharraf - Sheikh Rashid's Lal Haveli that has stood like an invincible political fortress since the 1985 party-less polls under Gen Zia.
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Officially, 12 people died in polling widely expected to be bloody, though reports claimed some two dozen had been killed. Benazir Bhutto's widower Asif Ali Zardari said PPP alone had lost 15 men.
There was no official word on the turnout at the time of going to press. Some TV channels though, were reporting 35 per cent voting.
In Rawalpindi, voting was largely peaceful. Slogans of Jiye Bhutto rent the air as boisterous supporters of both the PPP and PML (N) rode past Liaquat Bagh, where Benazir fell to a gun-bomb attack on December 27.
A short distance away young men astride open jeeps and motorcycles swathed in party flags converged at PML-Q leader - and a close aide of President Pervez Musharraf - Sheikh Rashid's Lal Haveli that has stood like an invincible political fortress since the 1985 party-less polls under Gen Zia.
To read the full article, click here....
To read the ePaper, visit : http://epaper.hindustantimes.com
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