However, he said he was disappointed by the narrow remit of the committee after Gordon Brown said last year that it could address issues including weekend voting, the representationof women and ethnic minorities and whether voting age should be lowered to 16.
If General Musharraf has failed to change the political landscape very much by holding these elections, his hope that political representation would expand horizontally by reserving a large chunk of the seats for women and minorities (35%) has also been thwarted.