Opponents of Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf seemed unlikely tonight to have won enough parliamentary seats to remove him from power.

AT LEAST four people were killed ahead of an election rally that Pakistan’s former prime minister Nawaz Sharif was preparing to attend.

Pakistani police separated supporters and opponents of President Gen. Pervez Musharraf as the two sides held rival rallies in Islamabad today during a hearing on a top judge’s contentious suspension.