By IRNA-PTI
Islamabad : “Democracy takes revenge” this brief headline in a Pakistani newspaper today summed up the result of the general election in which the opposition PPP and PML-N have emerged as key players.
With the PML-Q, derisively referred to as the “King’s party” for backing President Pervez Musharraf, heading towards the exit, the Daily Times carried a banner headline that read: “All the King’s men, gone!”
“President Pervez Musharraf’s political allies, the PML-Q, appear to have lost their grip over the country’s parliament, with the Pakistan People’s Party (of slain leader Benazir Bhutto) and the PML-N (of former Premier Nawaz Sharif) overtaking the ‘bicycle’ in the election race,” the Daily Times wrote. The bicycle was the PML-Q’s election symbol.
The News, another leading English daily, summed up the stunning results as: “Democracy takes revenge”. It was an apparent reference to a remark made by Bhutto’s son Bilawal, who was named the PPP Chairman after her death.
As official and unofficial results were tabulated, it emerged that PPP and PML-N had gained the most.