Official says Bhutto's party will contest Pakistan elections despite delay

[sabra]

Source: MSNBC

BREAKING NEWS: Official says Bhutto's party will contest Pakistan elections despite delay

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Opposition parties protest, but appear willing to content the vote

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistani elections will be delayed six weeks until Feb. 18 because of unrest following the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, authorities announced Wednesday. Opponents condemned the postponement but appeared set to contest the vote anyway.

The polls — seen as a key step in Pakistan's transition to democracy after years of military rule — had been scheduled for Jan. 8.

Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party contends the government is not sincere in holding fair elections but the party's central executive committee decided Wednesday to contest the polls anyway, a committee member told The Associated Press, requesting anonymity as he was not authorized to comment to media.

[demnan]

1. How can they contest the election

before it is held? Or are they contesting the sincerity? Or the fact that elections will even be held? Or are they contesting the date move?

As usual, MSNBC's muddied prose leaves more questions than it answers.

[Igel]

4. Good question sad

nobody ansered it earlier.

It's a dialectal difference. My son like to watch "Bob the Builder", a British-made show for mostly preschoolers. They have a "revision editor" to take out the British words and make the show American. Sometimes they mess up. "Ready, steady, go!" instead of "ready, set, go!", or "clockwork mouse" instead of "mechanical mouse".

"Contest" means "participate" when it comes to elections in Pakistan. By "contesting" the elections, they're running in them, taking part in the contest. In American English, it means to "challenge (the results)".

A lot of Pakistanis are native English speakers, so nobody edits their speech. They really should sometimes.

[tekisui]

2. Mushy's vote-rigging apparatus was damaged in protests.

They need time and US money to get the vote-stealing pieces back in place.

[madrchsod]

3. so does this mean her 19 yr old son is running?

just who will replace bhutto at the head of the ppp..