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Democracy takes revenge in Pakistan polls

Say Pak newspapers

AFP, Islamabad
Pakistani democracy has taken its revenge and voters have expressed their wrath against President Pervez Musharraf, the nation's newspapers said Tuesday after key parliamentary elections.
"Democracy takes revenge," read the front page of T he News English language daily after Monday's ballot.
The headline was an apparent reference to a remark made by Bilawal, the son of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, after she died in a gun and suicide attack in December: "My mother always said that democracy is the best revenge."
The News said: "The people of Pakistan spoke emphatically against President Pervez Musharraf and his allies..."
The main headline of Dawn, Pakistan's oldest and largest-circulation English daily, said: "Musharrafalliesface voters'wrath."
An accompanying front-page showed supporters of Benazir Bhutto, who had led the Pakistan People's Party (PPP), rejoicing in victory.
"The biggest task before the new parliamentarians will be to push the democratic process forward with restraint, wisdom and foresight in order to give stability’ to
Pakistan by forming a government that would be truly representative," Dawn said in its editorial.
Daily Times, a liberal English daily, headlined: "All the King's men, gone."
"President Pervez Musharrafs political allies, the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q), appear to have lost their grip over the country's parliament ...," the newspaper said in its lead article
With 222 of 272 constituencies counted, state television said former prime minister Nawaz Sharif's faction of the Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) had 63 seats, Benazir Bhutto's PPP 73 and the PML-Q 29. with smaller parties and independents taking the rest.
Full results were not expected until late Tuesday or early Wednesday.
Musharraf toppled Sharif in a bloodless coup in 1999, then restored parliament in late 2002 and installed a civilian government led by the military-backed PML-Q.
He stepped down as army chief last November amid political turmoil and bloodshed sparked by his efforts to maintain power.
The United States viewed the former general as its key ally in the fight against al-Qaeda and Taliban militants based in Pakistan's tribal areas on the border with Afghanistan.