Pervez Musharraf’s Pakistan Muslim League (PML-Q) has been comprehensively defeated in the Pakistan elections. The Pakistan People’s Party, Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) and other secular parties have swept aside opposition, including the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amil (MMA), an Islamist party which has been reduced to three seats in the National Assembly and lost control of Northwest Frontier Province to a secular nationalist Pashtun party.

In his first public statement since the election, PML-N leader Nawaz Sharif said:

Musharraf said he would quit when people tell him, and people have now given their verdict

Bye bye.

BBC and agencies.