By Xinhua
Islamabad : Pakistan’s People’s Party (PPP),which used to be led by the slain former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, announced on Sunday that it would contest the Jan. 8 parliamentary elections, local TV channel DAWN NEWS reported.
Speaking at a news conference after a central executive committee meeting in Naudero in the southern Sindh province on Sunday, Bhutto’s husband Asif Ali Zardari said that PPP would participate in the elections and urged former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif not to boycott elections.
The son of the slain Chairperson of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Bhutto Sunday said he had been elected as new Chairman of the party.
A central executive committee of PPP held a meeting at Bhutto’s house in Naudero in the southern Sindh province on Sunday, making a decision that Bhutto’s 19-year-old son Bilawal would lead the party with the assistance of some other senior leaders of the party, said a report.
Benazir Bhutto’s son said he will continue his mother’s struggle for democracy as leader of the Pakistan Peoples Party.
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Bhutto was killed in a suicide attack Thursday near the capital Islamabad.