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India-Pakistan
Vote on president 2 months before polls: Musharraf
2007-04-28
President Gen Pervez Musharraf confirmed on Friday that Pakistan’s parliament would vote on his re-election before it is to be dissolved for general polls later this year. “It is the people of Pakistan who will decide whether to elect me as the president or not,” President Musharraf told journalists during a visit to the Bosnian capital Sarajevo. “My election will be held two months before the national elections by Pakistan’s assembly,” he added. Opposition parties had labelled the move unconstitutional when Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz earlier announced it.

Opposition parties say President Musharraf should be elected by the new legislature after the parliamentary polls. In response to a question on whether he had been in talks with exiled former Premier Benazir Bhutto and her opposition party, the president said, “The political environment in the election will be exactly as it is now in Pakistan. There will be no change ... all we are assuring the whole world is that it is going to be a fair and transparent election.”
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