Русская версияPakistan'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.
(Deutsche Welle)
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