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"Crushing"--ABC's Jim Sciutto (embargoed link)…"demolished"--CBS' Mark Phillips…"humiliated"--NBC's Andrea Mitchell. That is how badly Pervez Musharraf's political party lost at the polls in Pakistan. ABC's Sciutto called it a win for "moderate, secular, civilian" forces with the Islamist parties also being rejected "overwhelmingly." Sciutto predicted a coalition government headed by former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Asif ali-Zardari, the widower of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, which would have enough votes to force Musharraf to resign. "America's key ally is looking like yesterday's man," stated CBS' Phillips although NBC's Mitchell (at the tail of the Castro videostream) reported that George Bush's diplomacy "is trying to find ways to keep Musharraf in power." Musharraf's ties to the United States "made him hugely unpopular," Phillips stated, that and his "heavy hand," as Sciutto put it. Sciutto expected that the new government "will likely mean a new antiterrorist strategy, less overt cooperation with the United States, less military action, more negotiation."
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