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Musharraf's approval rating slumps in Pakistan
The poll showed 32 per cent of Pakistanis believed Bhutto was the best leader to handle the problems, followed by Musharraf with 27 per cent.
Updated : Nov 19, 2013, 11:17 PM IST
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's approval rating nosedived 20 points in four months to 34 per cent by early July, a month when his political standing suffered more blows, a US survey released on Wednesday found.
It was the first time General Musharraf, who came to power in a 1999 coup, had scored approval ratings below 50 per cent since the Washington-based International Republican Institute (IRI) began polling in 2002.
With elections looming in the coming months, Musharraf has tried to shore up his position by reaching out to self-exiled former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, the leader of the largest opposition party.
The poll showed 32 per cent of Pakistanis believed Bhutto was the best leader to handle the problems, followed by Musharraf with 27 per cent, reversing the positions in the last poll conducted in February/March.
The two main leaders of Pakistan's Islamist parties only garnered seven percent between them.
The results will make gloomy reading for Musharraf, as his popularity probably declined further in July because of public disquiet over a heavy death toll resulting from the army's siege and storming of Islamabad's Red Mosque to crush a militant movement.
He took another bad knock on July 20, when the Supreme Court ruled against a military leader for the first time in its history, to restore a chief justice whom Musharraf had suspended four months earlier.
The outcry over Musharraf's botched attempt to oust Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry had already helped reduce his approval ratings between March and the first days of July, analysts said.
When asked who they would choose as president, 39 per cent of voters picked Bhutto and 30 percent said Musharraf.
Economic issues, not security problems, remained the greatest concerns for Pakistanis. Fifty-one per cent described inflation as the top issue, 19 per cent cited unemployment and 13 per cent said poverty.
The survey, taken between June 13 and July 3, polled 4,000 men and women from urban and rural communities in all four of Pakistan's provinces.
