Bhutto party won't accept vote delay - official |
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NAUDERO, Pakistan (Thomson Financial) - Slain Benazir Bhutto's party will not accept any delay in Pakistan's Jan 8 elections, a senior official said Sunday after indications that the authorities were considering a postponement.Opposition leader Bhutto's husband, the new co-chairman of her Pakistan People's Party, said earlier that it would take part in the polls despite her assassination on Thursday.A spokesman for the country's former ruling party however warned earlier that a delay of up to 12 weeks for the polls was are alistic' and said his party had stopped campaigning.'We will not accept any postponement of the elections and we want them as per schedule by Jan 8,' PPP Senator Safdar Abbasi told AFP. 'If postponed or delayed we will devise our future course of action.'Former premier Nawaz Sharif's party has also said that it will contest the elections, abandoning plans for a boycott.tf.TFN-Europe_newsdesk@thomson.comakCOPYRIGHTCopyright Thomson Financial News Limited 2007. All rights reserved.The copying, republication or redistribution of Thomson Financial News Content, including by framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Thomson Financial News.
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