Pakistan President Won’t Step Down


	Pakistan President Won’t Step Down

merrie

2-21-2008 8:51 AM

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pakistan, parliment, election, musharraf’s, rashid qureshi, benazir bhutto, nawaz sharif

merrie says:

Final results from this week’s parliamentary poll were expected later Wednesday, but with the count nearly complete, two opposition parties have won enough seats to form a new government, though they will likely fall short of the two-thirds needed to impeach the president…
Musharraf’s spokesman Rashid Qureshi said Tuesday the president intends to work with the new government and will serve out his term that expires in 2012 — rejecting opposition calls for him to resign.

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