Pakistan President Musharraf sails through confidence vote
AFP, January, 2004
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ISLAMABAD (AFP) — Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf won another major victory, securing a parliamentary vote of confidence that legitimises until 2007 the unelected rule of the general who stormed to power in a bloodless 1999 coup.
"Musharraf has won a majority vote in the national assembly. There was not a single vote against him," Information Minister Sheikh Rashid told AFP. The 100-seat senate earlier gave 56 votes to Musharraf.
The trust vote enables Musharraf, Pakistan's army chief and an ex-commando, to avoid a standard election to the presidency, to which he appointed himself in June 2001 after toppling an elected government in the army coup.
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In the past three weeks General Musharraf has escaped two near-miss assassination attempts and won a crippling year-long battle with opposition parties over his self-appointed rule and controversial power to sack the parliament.
On Monday the lower house approved a ...
