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We could have voted in favour of this joint resolution, as it contains a number of sound recitals regarding General Musharraf’s military regime in Pakistan. However, the condemnation does not go far enough.
Paragraph 2 legitimises the regime following the recent elections in October 2002. These elections were not democratic. They were conducted like a commercial transaction. The rich were able to buy votes from the poor without the electoral commission being able to stop them. The military at all levels put pressure on the local administration to help their preferred candidates. These elections were about encouraging politicians to follow the instructions and recommendations of the military, the ‘new’ allies of imperialism in the region. All the decisions taken were dictated by economic considerations: continuing with privatisations, deregulations, withdrawing collective agreements and mass unemployment.
According to the institute for planning sustainable development in Islamabad, 6.8 million Pakistanis fell below the poverty line during the last three years of the Musharraf regime. It is the IMF and the World Bank who really give the orders in the regime. There is no mention of that in this resolution and the condemnation of the Musharraf regime does not go far enough. We therefore abstained."@en1
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