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	Polity IV Country Report 2003: Pakistan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Following the secession of Bangladesh (formerly East Pakistan) from Pakistan in 1971, the discredited military was replaced by the democratically elected regime of Zulifikar Ali Bhutto (head of one of the best-known feudal families in Sind province whose PPP party had won a majority of seats in West Pakistan in the 1970 election).
		While political parties continue to operate in Pakistan, their political influence has been severely curtailed by intense party factionalism, a lack of national leadership and the imposition of significant government control.
		Although opposition parties are strident in their criticism of the military, they have been effective silenced by Musharraf's divide and rule tactics.
	www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/polity/Pak1.htm (2515 words)

	The Rise of the King's Party
		The party's strength centres on Nawaz Sharif and the Sharif family's influence in the Punjab, especially in the urban areas of the central districts in the province.
		The party does not have more than 40 former legislators in its fold in the province, though the majority of the workers are still with the Nawaz faction.
		The Millat Party is contesting elections on a small number of seats from the Punjab with an electoral adjustment with the PML-Q and are unlikely to win more than half a dozen seats.
	www.newsline.com.pk /NewsOct2002/cover7.htm (1889 words)

	Pakistan - Political flags
		The websites of both Benazir Bhutto's faction of the party and her brother's widow show identical flags, a red-fl-green vertical tricolor with a white crescent and star on the fl stripe.
		Flags of political parties throughout the sub-continent tend to be modified at the whim of the maker: crescents, stars, slogans, images of people, (usually the leader), etc., are all commonly displayed on them.
		In 1987 the party won a majority of seats in Karachi, and, with 13 seats, became the third biggest party in the National Assembly in 1988.
	www.hampshireflag.co.uk /world-flags/allflags/pk}.html (2818 words)

	Millat Party approved merger with PML: 'A tactical move' -DAWN - National; 19 May, 2004
		LAHORE, May 18: The National Council of the Millat Party formally okayed merger of the party with the PML-Q at a meeting here on Tuesday.
		The party's national executive committee, however, rejected the plan put up by Senator Muhammad Ali Durrani six months ago, though it was told that in the present situation it could not get any better share.
		At least five MNAs were likely to part ways with the party when Leghari would finally decide to 'surrender.' The MP is going to be formally merged with the PML after a meeting between Farooq Leghari and Prime Minister Jamali and PML President Chaudhry Shujaat Husain in Islamabad today (Wednesday).
	www.dawn.com /2004/05/19/nat4.htm (621 words)

	Asia Times: Musharraf jockeys for poll position
		Indeed, even the various political parties seem resigned to having Musharraf at the helm of government for at least five more years and are thus concentrating their efforts in ensuring that they are on the good side of the military government.
		Already, many parties are proclaiming their loyalty to the military government and throwing broad hints that they have the support of the military rulers.
		Interestingly, the government is neither affirming nor denying the claims by the parties and individual political leaders about their "winning chances" in the elections by virtue of their closeness to the rulers.
	www.atimes.com /ind-pak/DC15Df03.html (1017 words)

	Political Parties in Pakistan
		The forging of opportunist alliances, with parties once divided sharply on the basis of ideology now united mainly in an attempt to create a strong front against groups backed by the military authorities, signifies too what a limited role political conviction plays as far as parties in the country are concerned.
		Her candidature for the 2002 elections, as a candidate of the PPPP was rejected, on the grounds that she was an absconder from justice, and thus barred under the new rules in place for the 2002 polls.
		And, even for the parties themselves, it is electoral pragmatism aimed at increasing vote banks and seat shares which for the most part dictates strategy, rather than the pursuit of the lofty ideals detailed in party manifestoes.
	www.hrcpelectoralwatch.org /partyprofiles.cfm (5691 words)

	Non-university graduates banned from standing in elections - smh.com.au
		The new law is the country's first educational restriction on politicians and is opposed by several parties, some of whom have threatened to challenge it in court.
		Raza Rabbani, secretary general of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) of exiled former premier Benazir Bhutto, described the new rule as a "pre-poll rigging to exclude candidates of the mainstream political parties from contesting elections".
		Millat Party secretary general Muhammad Ali Durrani said the rule-change would foster an educated leadership but would turn off voters.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/06/23/1023864530166.html (537 words)

	JI Media News: President of Pakistan Millat Party, Sardar Farooq Ahmed Khan Leghari on Tuesday held a meeting with ...
		JI Media News: President of Pakistan Millat Party, Sardar Farooq Ahmed Khan Leghari on Tuesday held a meeting with ameer of Jamaat-e-Islami, Qazi Hussain Ahmed
		President of Pakistan Millat Party, Sardar Farooq Ahmed Khan Leghari on Tuesday held a meeting with ameer of Jamaat-e-Islami, Qazi Hussain Ahmed
		President of Pakistan Millat Party, Sardar Farooq Ahmed Khan Leghari on Tuesday held a meeting with ameer of Jamaat-e-Islami, Qazi Hussain Ahmed and invited him to attend Pakistan-Afghanistan Solidarity Conference scheduled in Islamabad on November 6.
	www.jamaat.org /news/news01/pr103001b.html (187 words)

	Pakistan Today: Front Page 071798
		I don’t know how it was a favor, I never asked to be president, it was she and her party’s people who requested that of me, and I said that I needed time to think it over whether I wish to be a candidate or not.
		I stayed with the party because I believed in the party’s cause and in it’s struggle against the dictatorship of General Zia ul Haq, that’s why I stayed on in the party.
		I resigned from the party when I became president, not because there was a compulsion for me to resign constitutionally, but I resigned the day I was sworn in as president so that I could play a more effective role in the highly polarized politics of Pakistan.
	www.paktoday.com /legh2.htm (4922 words)

	Khaleej Times - Online
		According to opposition parties, the district nazim of Jhelum, Chaudhry Farrukh, who is son of the late former governor, is openly sympathising with and supporting PML (Q) candidates, one of whom is his uncle.
		Azizullah Brohi is facing Rashid Naseem of Muttahida Majlise Amal, the alliance of six mainstream religious parties, and Younus Khan of the Haqiqi splinter group of the MQM.
		She said that the party could not take any action against her merely on the basis of the first information report filed in the court.
	www.khaleejtimes.co.ae /ktarchive/011002/subcont.htm (12078 words)

	The Hindu : Musharraf to hold all-party meet on summit
		The exercise, a kind of an all-party meet, is a follow-up to the promise Gen. Musharraf made when he appeared live on the Pakistan Television on `Face the nation' programme last week, but would have a totally different connotation as it is taking place under dramatically changed circumstances.
		However, in the changed political context in Pakistan, the parties want to utilise the all-party meet to register their protest against what they believe is ``usurpation'' of the office of the President by Gen. Musharraf.
		Besides the PML and PPP, the Mohajir Qaumi Movement (MQM), Millat Party, Jamaat-e- Islami, Jamaat-e-Ulema Party, Tehrife Jafria Party (Sunni- dominated outfit) and Pakistan Tehriki Insaf.
	www.hinduonnet.com /2001/06/24/stories/01240008.htm (617 words)

	Merger plan causes rift in Millat Party -DAWN - National; 18 May, 2004
		LAHORE, May 17: Millat Party chief Farooq Leghari's decision to merge the party with the ruling PML-Q has caused a rift among its senior members.
		Sources in the party say that Sindh and NWFP chapters of the party are specially disturbed over the merger plan.
		All senators and MNAs of the Millat Party as well as of other components of the National Alliance are, however, in favour of joining the PML-Q. But MPAs from Sindh province (elected to the provincial assembly from the platform of Sindh Democratic Alliance, SDA) are divided into two groups on the issue.
	www.dawn.com /2004/05/18/nat2.htm (312 words)

	Millat Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Millat Party (Urdu: ملت پارٹی) is a political party in Pakistan, formed by Sardar Farooq Ahmad Khan Leghari, former president of Pakistan, once he was no longer the president, and needed a platform to survive politically.
		Millat Party is now part of the ruling coalition where it is represented by Sardar Farooq Leghari's son, Owais Leghari.
		At the last legislative elections, 20 October 2002, the party was part of the National Alliance, that won 4.6 % of the popular vote and 12 out of 272 elected members.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Millat_Party (165 words)

	The Hindu : Pak. parties await EC move
		The two mainstream parties, the Pakistan Muslim League (PML) led by the former Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif, and the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) headed by another former Prime Minister, Benazir Bhutto, would wait with bated breath for the decisions of the Commission on a number of issues.
		Doubts have arisen on whether the PML and the PPP would be recognised by the Commission for the purpose of the general election though they went out of their way to conform to the new rules framed by the military Government.
		The PML-Q of Mian Azhar and the National Alliance parties "including Millat Party of Farooq Leghari, the National Awami Party Pakistan of Ajmal Khattak and the Sindh Democratic Alliance of Imtiaz Sheikh'' were identified as the main characters in the script.
	www.hindu.com /2002/08/13/stories/2002081304261100.htm (629 words)

	Ten tough months for Gen Musharraf
		Meanwhile, the government is having negotiations with the PPP to associate the former ruling party with the new set up minus Benazir Bhutto, chairperson of the party.
		She would prefer to be allowed to come back to lead the party by sitting at home and become the prime minister for a third time.
		Meanwhile as the election season nears the political parties are drifting apart.
	www.defencejournal.com /2002/january/months.htm (1828 words)

	Asia Times: Musharraf engineers a silent coup
		Since district administrations are now in the hands of elected representatives, rather than bureaucrats as they were before Musharraf introduced reforms under his devolution of power plan, these elected representatives are the main targets for the ISI to cultivate.
		And on Tuesday, the leaders of the main religious parties, including the Jamaat-i-Islami, the Jamiat-i-Ulema-i-Pakistan, the Jamiat-i-Ulema-i-Islam and others from the Shi'ite and Wahabi schools of thought, held a press conference at which they rejected the referendum and said that they would launch a campaign to unseat Musharraf.
		On Wednesday, members of the PPP were prevented from attending ceremonies to mark the 23rd anniversary of the death of their founder and late premier, Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto.
	www.atimes.com /ind-pak/DD05Df02.html (811 words)

	National Assembly of Pakistan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Speaker of the House presides over the Assembly, and acts as the president of the country if both the President and the Chairman of the Senate are not present.
		The leader of the largest party in the Assembly often serves as the Prime Minister of Pakistan.
		The composition of the National Assembly is specified in Article 51[1] of the Constitution of Pakistan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/National_Assembly_of_Pakistan (465 words)

	HIMAL SOUTH ASIAN \| February 2003 \| Report \| The pathology of military democracy: Manufacturing a government in Sindh
		The PML-Q, otherwise known as the ‘king’s party’, emerged in the wake of deposed Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s exile to Saudi Arabia in 2000 through a deal that is yet to be made public.
		Given that it was made up of small parties with no grassroots networks to speak of, Islamabad felt that the NA would not be strong enough on its own to serve the centre’s agenda.
		The party then promoted Jatoi’s son, Arif Mustafa, as the NA nominee for the top slot, only to be out-maneuvered again, this time by Ghous Bux Mehr when the MQM announced its backing for the tribal lord Ali Mohammad Mehr.
	www.himalmag.com /2003/february/report_2.htm (4170 words)

	Pakistan Times \| Top Stories: Settlement between MMA-Govt Must for sustainable democracy: Leghari
		LAHORE: The ex-President and head of Millat Party Sardar Farooq Ahmad Khan Leghari Sunday hoped that Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) and the government would soon develop understanding on LFO.
		Accuses PPP-PML [N] Leghari criticized the alleged plundering of resources during the regimes of Nawaz Sharif and Benazir Bhutto and held them responsible for the poverty and unemployment in the country that he said has doubled during last fourteen years.
		Millat Party strongly supports accountability of corrupt elements and this process should continue unhindered, he said.
	pakistantimes.net /2003/12/01/top8.htm (264 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The car bomb exploded near a gathering held in the neighbourhood of Multan to commemorate first anniversary of their leader, Maulana Azam Tariq, who was gunned down a year ago on the outskirts of Islamabad.
		At least 50 people were seriously injured in the blast, which provoked activists of Millat-e-Islamia party (new name of banned Sipah-e-Sihaba Pakistan), who chanted anti-government slogans, demanding President Pervez Musharraf to give up support to the US and its agenda to kill Mulsims.
		Deputy chief of Multan police Talat Mehmood Tariq said a remote control device caused the blast, which completely destroyed the car that was parked a few hundred metres from the site of explosion.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1041008/asp/foreign/story_3854454.asp (649 words)

	Interview - Qari Shafiqur Rehman
		We have always disowned the terrorist acts of the Lashkar-i-Jhangvi (a splinter group that is involved in terrorism).
		After the party was banned by the government under US pressure, for supporting the Taliban, Azam Tariq announced the launch of a new political party, the Millat-e-Islamia.
		We are still in the process of reorganising, but the Maulana's death has dealt the party a severe blow.
	www.newsline.com.pk /newsOct2003/stopoct3.htm (517 words)

	The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - World
		Self-exiled Pakistan People’s Party chairperson Benazir Bhutto has urged the Chief Election Commissioner that the symbol of arrow, which is the copyright of the PPP, be given to the PPP Parliamentarians or to no one else, according to a report in The News.
		The ARD comprises 15 major and smaller parties, including the mainstream Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and the Pakistan Peoples’ Party, which is also out of the election politics for not meeting the legal conditions and has substituted itself with the PPP-parliamentarians.
		Similarly, the six smaller parties forming part of the NA have also not held their internal elections nor submitted documents to the election commission as required under the law.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2002/20020812/world.htm (3130 words)

	THE POLITICAL SCENARIO
		The fate of these elections has been termed, by most experts, as one that is surely going to swing the pendulum in favour of the pro-government parties and at the expense of those who oppose the reformsit measures of the junta.
		Falling short of terming the next parliament as hung, it would most certainly be a weak one in which no single party would inherit significant majority and this would have long term consequences on the structure and future of legislation process in Pakistan.
		The PML-Q, the PML-J, the PPP-Sharpao, Sindh Democratic Alliance (SDA) and Pakistan Millat Party (PMP) dominated National Alliance are pro-government political parties.
	www.pakistaneconomist.com /issue2002/issue40/etc4.htm (734 words)

	The News - International
		One, when the prime minister thinks that his party and his popularity are at their peak.
		When Sardar Farooq Leghari buried his Millat Party by merging it with PML, he politically threw himself at the mercy of PML, more particularly of the Chaudhries.
		It is a highly disciplined party, more disciplined than even the MMA whose claim to piety was brutally exposed in the recent Senate elections.
	www.thenews.com.pk /daily_detail.asp?id=3124 (1007 words)

	:: Top News Stories- Pakistan Observer - Newspaper Online Edition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Lahore—As President Musharraf has declared 2007 the year of elections, all the political parties of either side including the opposition alliances and the ruling allies have started their mass contact drive.
		Millat Party did, terming the expansion in the ruling coalition as another milestone and a desire from both sides, which is not far away.
		He opined that it was keen desire of President Musharraf that all the moderate elements get united against extremists at one platform, so his party would prefer to work for the larger national interest cherished by the President.
	www.pakobserver.net /200610/19/news/topstories12.asp (392 words)

	Islam Online- News Section (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		As expected, the dissidents from the opposition party PPPP who voted for Jamali against the party policy were able to retain six seats in the cabinet.
		Important coalition partners like member of the Millat Party of former President Farooq Leghari and Sherpao Group of PPP were given representation in the federal cabinet.
		The opposition party of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto reacted angrily Saturday to the appointment of six party dissenters to Pakistan's new cabinet.
	www.islamonline.net /english/news/2002-11/23/article52.shtml (999 words)

	BBC News \| SOUTH ASIA \| Muted response from Sharif's party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		However another opposition party - the Pakistan Peoples Party of Benazir Bhutto - said that it was relieved that Mr Sharif had escaped the death penalty.
		The muted reaction of the PML to Thursday's verdict may in part be a result of a recent appeal made by its acting head, Raja Zafar ul-Haq, for party members to remain calm whatever the verdict in the Sharif trial.
		One of these may be that party members believed Mr Sharif would be given the death penalty, and were therefore relieved that he was sentenced to life imprisonment.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/south_asia/704190.stm (337 words)

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