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PPP to name new prime minister next week
After winning Pakistan's parliamentary elections last month, the party of slain opposition leader Benazir Bhutto will name a new prime minister next week, a spokesman said on Saturday.
- AP
- Published: 13:31 March 15, 2008
Islamabad: After winning Pakistan's parliamentary elections last month, the party of slain opposition leader Benazir Bhutto will name a new prime minister next week, a spokesman said on Saturday.
Followers of Bhutto, a two-time prime minister who returned to Pakistan last year but was killed in a December suicide attack, won the largest number of seats in the February 18 polls, ousting allies of US-backed President Pervez Musharraf and easing Pakistan back toward democracy after years of military rule.
Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party has pledged to form a coalition government with the party of another former premier, Nawaz Sharif, after the new parliament convenes on Monday.
With the largest number of seats, it falls to the PPP to name a prime minister. On Saturday, party spokesman Farhatullah Babar said a decision was imminent.
Babar said, "Our party will come up with a name next week."
Parliament would then have to confirm the nomination.
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