Rafael
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You guys are saying as if King Musharraf was sitting on a thrown and stepped aside and asked Zardari to take the place. HOW LAUGHABLE!
PPP had no chance to win the 2002 elections but was still the largest party in that election. In 2008 PPP had a much better chance, because now PPP was to be allowed its due share. You can go all the way back to the 1970 elections and will see that PPP has been either the highest/2nd highest vote getter and/or the highest/2nd highest seat getter.
All Musharraf did was to allow an exception by implementing the NRO to migrate to a democratic setup. Of the 8000+ NRO beneficiaries less than a hundred are politicians! Zardari is only one of them. NRO only allowed a few PPP people to contest in elections without being in prison. And don't forget some of the stalwarts from the PMNL (I think Humayyun Saifullah Khan?) has admitted that NS instituted a lot of fake cases against PPP.
Zardari faced prison for 11 years on charges which are, too this day, unproven. NRO or not PPP was destined to win the 2008 elections, especially after the military had decided to sideline PMLN.
So please educate yourself. Perhaps you are not old enough like me--who has seen from 1970 through the 2008 elections--to understand Pakistani politics. But then Google is not far away.
Correction - BB and Zardari were actually convicted by swiss courts on charges of money laundering. They had appealed to the courts to review the decision before Musharaff withdrew the case!