Pakistan's largest party, the PPP, has nominated its leader and the 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 6. The selection of an election date came as Zardari's main coalition 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.
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