PAKISTAN: Bhutto's son to lead party
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Pakistani electoral officials have held an emergency meeting, and will decide Tuesday whether to postpone a general election scheduled for January 8. A senior government official, however, has told the AFP news agency the vote will 'likely' be delayed several weeks. Meanwhile, Benazir Bhutto's eldest son, Bilawal Zardari, will assume his mother's position as the head of her Pakistan People's Party, which has announced it will contest the Pakistan elections. His father, Asif Ali Zardari, will be co-chairman of the party, and will run it on a daily basis until the 19-year-old finishes his studies at Oxford University. And as rioting over Ms Bhutto's death continues, the family has refused to allow an autopsy on her body and has called instead for a United Nations inquiry into her killing.
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