10-07-2007, 06:16 AM
<b>Musharraf sweeps boycotted Pakistan poll</b> <!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Gen. Pervez Musharraf won an overwhemingly majority in a presidential <b>election boycotted by nearly the entire opposition </b>Saturday, and attention shifted to Supreme Court deliberations on whether he can claim victory.
Opposition parties that snubbed the vote claimed it was undemocratic and unconstitutional for the U.S.-backed general, who seized power in a 1999 coup, to run while still army chief
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Opposition parties that snubbed the vote claimed it was undemocratic and unconstitutional for the U.S.-backed general, who seized power in a 1999 coup, to run while still army chief
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