Voting begins in Pakistan presidential election
Agence France-Presse
First Posted 14:28:00 09/06/2008
Filed Under: Elections
ISLAMABAD -- Pakistani lawmakers began voting Saturday in a presidential election that slain opposition leader Benazir Bhutto's widower is expected to win, an Agence France-Presse correspondent witnessed.
"Let's start polling," chief election commissioner Qazi Mohammad Farooq told parliament as lawmakers started a secret ballot in which Asif Ali Zardari is the frontrunner.
Lawmakers from the country's two houses of parliament and four provincial assemblies are voting Saturday to elect a successor to Pervez Musharraf, who was forced to resign last month under threat of impeachment.
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