PM: Pakistan still on for Jan 8 elections

(Agencies)
Updated: 2007-12-28 16:11

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan's plan to hold a January 8 general election still stands, the country's caretaker prime minister said on Friday, a day after opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was assassinated.


Caretaker Prime Minister Mohammadmian Soomro 
[File photo]

"Nothing yet. Elections stand as they were announced," caretaker Prime Minister Mohammadmian Soomro told reporters when asked if a decision had been made on the timing of the parliamentary polls in light of Bhutto's death.

 



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