Hellfires and ballots

I wonder if things like this...

HUNTING AL-QAEDA

Unilateral Strike Called a Model For U.S. Operations in Pakistan

...will continue after this:

Pakistan's ruling party concedes defeat

Mark C.

Update: Ed Morrissey gives the good news--and it really is a relief:

...The Islamists have all but disappeared from the parliament at this point, with MMA winning only three seats after calling for a boycott earlier.

[...]

The Islamists lost their mandate in the provinces as well. ANP, the center-left Pashtun party, will take the most seats in the Frontier province, followed by PPP. MMA only took 8 seats in that assembly, falling from power and obviously losing popularity in the region for its insistence on Islamist law. Musharraf's PML-Q won a plurality in Balochistan and will likely form a coalition with PPP to lock out MMA...

Posted by markc at February 19, 2008 05:23 PM