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        "msgid": "bhutto-trailing-in-poll-1447893297",
        "date": "1997-01-28 00:00:00",
        "title": "Bhutto trailing in poll",
        "author": null,
        "source": "REUTERS",
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        "summary": "Bhutto trailing in poll KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuter): Ousted prime minister Benazir Bhutto is trailing well behind her main rival, Nawaz Sharif, in the run-up to Pakistan's Feb. 3 elections, an opinion poll obtained by Reuters yesterday said. The poll, to be published in the English-language monthly Newsline tomorrow, said 33 percent of 2,048 people interviewed in 13 cities wanted to see Sharif become the next prime minister, against 25 percent who favored Bhutto.",
        "content": "<p>Bhutto trailing in poll<\/p>\n<p>KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuter): Ousted prime minister Benazir<br>\nBhutto is trailing well behind her main rival, Nawaz Sharif, in<br>\nthe run-up to Pakistan's Feb. 3 elections, an opinion poll<br>\nobtained by Reuters yesterday said.<\/p>\n<p>The poll, to be published in the English-language monthly<br>\nNewsline tomorrow, said 33 percent of 2,048 people interviewed in<br>\n13 cities wanted to see Sharif become the next prime minister,<br>\nagainst 25 percent who favored Bhutto.<\/p>\n<p>Twelve percent preferred cricketer-turned-politician Imran<br>\nKhan, while 30 percent said they would vote for someone else.<\/p>\n<p>The Karachi-based Newsline found that 29 percent of those<br>\npolled said they would vote for Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League<br>\n(PML), 23 percent for Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party (PPP) and<br>\n10 percent for Imran's Tehrik-i-Insaaf (Justice Movement).<\/p>\n<p>About 38 percent said they would vote for a variety of other<br>\npolitical and regional parties.<\/p>\n<p>President Farooq Leghari called the elections, Pakistan's<br>\nfifth in 12 years, after sacking Bhutto's government on Nov. 5 on<br>\ndisputed charges of corruption and misrule.<\/p>\n<p>Newsline said the PML was the front-runner in Pakistan's most<br>\npopulous province of Punjab, while the PPP vote seemed to be<br>\nsplit in the southern province of Sindh, its main power base.<\/p>\n<p>\"The PPP seems to have lost ground in the interior of Sindh<br>\nbecause of the challenge from the PPP-Shaheed Bhutto,\" it said,<br>\nreferring to a PPP splinter group led by Ghinwa Bhutto, the<br>\nLebanese-born widow of Murtaza Bhutto, Benazir's slain brother.<\/p>\n<p>Murtaza and seven companions were killed in a controversial<br>\nshoot-out with police in Karachi on Sept. 20.<\/p>\n<p>\"In Larkana, (Bhutto's home town), the PPP-SB has an edge over<br>\nthe PPP. This development is possibly an outcome of the rumours<br>\nimplicating Asif Ali Zardari in Murtaza Bhutto's murder.\"<\/p>\n<p>Zardari, Bhutto's husband, is in jail facing changes linking<br>\nhim with Murtaza's killing. He says he is innocent.<\/p>\n<p>Newsline said about 35 percent of those polled said they did<br>\nnot expect the elections to be fair and independent, against 20<br>\npercent who thought they would. Forty-five percent said they did<br>\nnot know.<\/p>\n<p>The monthly found that 51 percent believed an anti-corruption<br>\ndrive launched by the caretaker government was unfair, against 24<br>\npercent who thought the opposite. The remainder had no opinion.<\/p>",
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