(19 Feb 2008) SHOTLIST
Islamabad
1. Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, chairman of ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Q party, sitting down at news briefing
2. Cutaway of media
3. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, Chairman of ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Q party:
"We are not saying, like the previous opposition were saying, that if we lose we will not accept and we will start agitation on the streets. We accept this result. This election took place in a very free way."
4. Cutaway of media
5. Chaudhry Shujaat talking to party worker
6. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, Chairman of ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Q party:
"I also extended my appreciation to the government of Pakistan and to the election commission for conducting peacefully elections, we are and we will gracefully accept the results declared by the election commission."
Islamabad
7. Wide of parliament house, with paramilitary vehicles in foreground
8. Low angle view of presidential palace behind barbed wire
9. Paramilitary soldier standing on rooftop
10. Paramilitary soldiers sitting in truck
11. Various of people reading newspapers at stall
12. Close-up of newspaper headline reading: "PPP, N rout PML-Q"
13. Wide of newspaper stall
Lahore
14. Wide of news stall
16. Tilt-down of men reading newspaper
17. Newspapers laid out on stand
18. Close-up of picture on front of newspaper of assassinated former Pakistani premier, Benazir Bhutto
19. People reading news headlines
Karachi
23. Wide of people looking newspapers
24. Close-up of Dawn newspaper with headline reading: (English) "Musharraf allies face voters' wrath."
25. People looking at newspapers
26. Man reading The News newspaper with headline reading: (English) "Nation vote for change."
27. Wide of exterior of Karachi Stock Exchange
28. Close-up of sign reading: (English) Karachi Stock Exchange
29. Wide of interior of stock exchange
30. People talking in stock exchange market
31. Close-up of screen showing rise in market
32. Various of trader working at desk
33. SOUNDBITE: (English) Mohammed Siddique Sulemman, Stock Market Broker:
"Since the elections are over and the opposition won the elections, therefore it is presumed that the market will go up. For this reason the market has gone up about four percent today."
34. Wide of interior of stock exchange
STORYLINE:
The chairman of Pakistan's ruling party conceded defeat on Tuesday after opposition parties routed allies of President Pervez Musharraf in parliamentary elections.
"We are not saying, like the previous opposition were saying, that if we lose we will not accept and we will start agitation on the streets," Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, head of the Pakistan Muslim League-Q, told AP Television News in Islamabad.
"We accept this result. This election took place in a very free way," he added.
Final results were not expected before Tuesday evening, but the election's outcome appeared to be a stinging public rebuff of Musharraf, whose popularity plummeted following his decisions last year to impose emergency rule, purge the judiciary, jail opponents and curtail press freedoms.
Unofficial results from Monday's balloting showed the opposition party of assassinated former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto leading in the race for parliament seats.
Ex-Premier Nawaz Sharif, who was toppled in Musharraf's 1999 coup and emerged as his fiercest critic, appeared to be running a close second.
Based on precinct returns, the private Geo TV network said the two parties had so far won 139 seats, more than half of the 272-seat National Assembly.
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