For D7 I had to use drupal_render to render the form:

module_load_include('inc', 'user', 'user.pages');
$pw = drupal_get_form(‘user_pass’);
print drupal_render($pw);

function killthis() {
  pid="$(cat tmp/pids/server.pid)"
  if [ ! -z "$pid" ]; then
    echo "[OK] Process Id : ${pid}"
    kill -9 $pid
    echo "[OK] Process killed"
  else
    echo "[FAIL] Some issues in getting pid"
  fi
}

function mytheme_views_mini_pager__myiew($tags = array(), $limit = 10, $element = 0, $parameters = array(), $quantity = 9)

I was trying to a similar thing with this function but instead I was trying to return a slightly different html string

Here is the full function here – http://pastebin.com/n9BNBi8c

The html string I am looking for is this

<div class="articlePagination">
<a href="" class="action"><span>Newer Posts</span></a>
<a href="" class="action back"><span>Older Posts</span></a>
</div>

I feel like returning this views pager in a more specific html string should be the exact same process but for some reason I cannot get it it seems like the classes of l() are being controlled by the $items array above and I was wondering if you had any experience with this type of pager or if this is a completely different thing.

thanks again for all the help