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Rediff.com - International News
The opposition Pakistan Muslim League - Nawaz on Saturday urged new President Asif Ali Zardari to quit his position in the ruling Pakistan People's Party to demonstrate that he would function in a non-partisan manner in the post.Speaking shortly after Zardari's victory in the presidential poll was declared by the Chief Election Commissioner, senior PML-N leader Saad Rafiq, a close aide of party chief Nawaz Sharif, called on the PPP chief to resign from his party position.
Some of the key dates in Pakistan's political crisis.
Asif Ali Zardari, the widower of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto, won the Pakistan presidential election on Saturday, according to an unofficial tally of results. Zardari, who had been widely expected to win, had secured 458 out of 702 electoral college votes, according to partial Election Commission results.
Ten people were killed and several more injured in a powerful explosion near a police check-post on the outskirts of the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar on Saturday. The blast destroyed a police check post in Badabher area of Peshawar, the capital of the North West Frontier Province, and damaged two nearby markets and about 15 vehicles.
Unfazed by the demands from the estranged ally PML-N and the influential lawyers movement, Pakistan's ruling PPP has decided against re-instating deposed Chief Justice Iftikhar M Chaudhry to his previous post and said he will have to work under the incumbent if re-appointed.
Officials of the University of Peshawar have said the directive is in line with Pashtun culture but the students have criticised it, saying it is discriminatory. Girl students in all departments and colleges affiliated to the university have been warned that they will face fines if they do not wear chaaders or gowns on campus
Pakistan's ruling Pakistan People's Party chief Asif Ali Zardari appears set to sweep Saturday's presidential poll and would be expected to tackle problems like rising militancy and economic malaise after his election.Sources said that Zardari expects to poll over 60 per cent of the 700 members in the electoral college, in an election necessitated by former President Pervez Musharraf's resignation on August 18.
'If I am elected president, one of my highest priorities will be to support the prime minister, the National assembly and the senate to amend the constitution to bring back into balance the powers of the presidency and thereby reduce its ability to bring down democratic governance,' Zardari said in an Op-Ed piece in The Washington Post.
The report by the standing senate committee on national security and defence criticises the Canadian government for procrastination in implementing and maintaining disaster readiness programs across the country, leaving Canadians vulnerable to natural and man-made disasters.
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