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Zardari confident of victory

Nirupama Subramanian

Lahore: Confident of a victory for his party in a free and fair election on February 18, Pakistan People’s Party leader Asif Ali Zardari on Saturday refused to rule out working with President Pervez Musharraf and said the PPP “will cross that bridge when we come to it” and that it would be collective decision of the party.

In an interview with The Hindu, Mr. Zardari said it was the PPP’s intention to use its mandate to form a broad-based government of national unity.

“We want to include the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, we want even those political forces that are not represented in Parliament. When we collect the entire country’s political forces, we will put on the table the difficulties being faced by Pakistan. Through their collective wisdom, the PPP wants to take the entire country along,” the party leader said.

He said the party would decide on its prime ministerial candidate only after the election. While conceding he was not ruling himself out, he said that at this stage “I am not ruling myself in either.”

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