The World - News from Jan. 29, 1989

Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto’s Pakistan People’s Party suffered a setback in special parliamentary elections in Punjab province but gained ground in two others. About 3 million voters were electing national and provincial lawmakers in what was seen as the first test of public opinion on the two-month-old government of Bhutto. The results did not alter the balance of power in the National Assembly, the lower house of Parliament, where the Pakistan People’s Party won 124 seats in an election last November. In Punjab, where the rival Islamic Democratic Alliance is already in power, Bhutto’s party took only two of nine seats. But overall it gained 11 of the 20 seats being contested.