Islamabad, Nov. 17, Reuter — Opposition leader Benazir Bhutto’s Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) took an early lead on Thursday as results trickled in from National elections.
Twelve hours after polling stations closed the PPP had now $38 of the 207 Moslem National Assembly seats at stake, compared to 16 for the Pro-Government Islamic Democratic Alliance (IDA).
But few results had been declared from all-important Punjab Province which elects 115 seats and where the IDA was doing better.
An Immigrants’ Ethnic Group reigned supreme in Karachi, Pakistan’s biggest city, and Hyderabad.
The People’s Party, and Independent and Minor Party candidates, scored well in North West frontier province, which sends 26 members to Islamabad.
The PPP trounced one of the three IDA leaders, Ghulam Mustafa Jatio, in his home district in Sind Province.
The powerful Punjab Chief Minister Nawaz Sharif won in his hometown of Lahore,
Article extracted from this publication >> November 18, 1988
