Busharraf
n.— «Polls showed Musharraf’s popularity was in free fall at 15 per cent. Some 64 per cent of Pakistanis said they viewed the president’s backers in Washington as “the single biggest threat” to the nation. And people had recently taken to calling the president “Busharraf.”» —“Angry encounter in ‘Busharraf’ land” by Bill Schiller in Rawalpindi, Pakistan Toronto Star (Canada) Mar. 1, 2008. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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