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| Presidential Elections in Pakistan
Pakistan presidential election underway
Saturday, 6 September 2008 07:30
Pakistani legislators have begun voting to choose a successor to former president Pervez Musharraf.
Three candidates are contesting the election, which was prompted by the resignation of Pervez Musharraf in the face of impeachment charges last month.
The frontrunner is Asif Ali Zardari, the widower of the assasinated former prime minister Benazir Bhutto.
AdvertisementHe is being challenged by retired chief justice Saeed-uz-Zaman Siddiqui, backed by former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, and Mushahid Hussain, a close aide of Musharraf.
Pakistan's presidential election is not a popular vote but a ballot of the country's two houses of parliament and four provincial assemblies.
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