PPP will take part in election: Zardari

INDIATIMES NEWS NETWORK & AGENCIES / Dec 30, 2007, 20:23 IST

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Two other key decisions of PPP: Benazir Bhutto’s 19-year-old son Bilawal named PPP chairman; international independent probe into Benazir's assassination sought.

NAUDERO, Pakistan: Assassinated Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto's party will take part in a January 8 general election, as she would have wanted, her husband and new co-chairman of her party, Asif Ali Zardari, said on Sunday.
"Despite this dangerous situation, we will go for elections, according to her will and thinking," Zardari told a news conference at the Bhutto family home in Naudero in the south of the country.
Asif Ali Zardari also called on former premier Nawaz Sharif to reverse his decision to boycott the polls, which Sharif had announced as a gesture of solidarity in the wake of Bhutto's assassination on Thursday.
"We are grateful to Nawaz Sharif for announcing a boycott of the election. But we appeal to him to end the boycott and take part."

"We will go to elections," Zardari further told a news conference at which his 19-year-old son Bilawal was named as the new chairman of the Pakistan People's Party.
PPP also rejected any government investigation into the assassination of Benazir Bhutto and demanded a probe by the United Nations into the tragic incident.
"We reject their (Pakistan government's) commissions, judges and police. We want an international investigation team to probe the killing of Benazir," PPP co-chairman and Bhutto's husband Asif Ali Zarari told reporters.
"We will write to the United Nations and the British Government to order an international investigation into the martyrdom of Benazir Bhutto," he said.

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