The party of assassinated former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto has nominated former National Assembly speaker Yousaf Raza Gilani as its candidate for prime minister, a party spokesman said today.
President Pervez Musharraf has asked the National Assembly to reconvene on Monday to elect the prime minister and Gilani, a vice chairman of Ms Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party, is all but guaranteed to win the vote with the support of his party and its coalition allies.
