Ruling party sees Pakistan vote delay

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Source: AP

NAUDERO, Pakistan - Pakistan's ruling party said Sunday that Jan. 8 elections may be delayed up to four months because of the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, while the opposition leader's supporters debated who should succeed her and whether to take part in the vote.

As political maneuvering in the wake of Bhutto's death picked up pace, another key opposition party said it would reverse an earlier decision to boycott the vote if Bhutto's group decided to run.

"We will definitely contest the elections if the PPP decides to contest," said Sadiq ul-Farooq, a senior member of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League-N party.

Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party, which was expected to announce its decision Sunday, was meeting in her ancestral home of Naudero to decide on a successor as its leader — with either her son or husband seen as favorites.



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