Pakistan's largest party, the PPP, has nominated the its leader and widower of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, to be its candidate for president.
Asif Ali Zardari was unanimously chosen by the Pakistan People's Party to run for the post on September Pakistan seeks UN Bhutto inquiry ...
Troops 'must back Mugabe or quit' ... 6. The selection of an electon date came as Zardari's main coaltion partner offered to extend a deadline to restore supreme court justices sacked by former president Pervez Musharraf. Nawaz Sharif, head of the PML-N, set next Wednesday as the day for all the judges to be returned to the bench. The coalition partners are battling over whether former Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry should be reinstated.
(Deutsche Welle)
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