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Rehman to head coalition in Pak

Islamabad, November 5
Overcoming her reservations, former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has reportedly okayed top Islamic cleric Maulana Fazlur Rehman as the Prime Ministerial candidate to head a coalition government comprising religious and moderate political parties opposed to President Pervez Musharraf.

After two days of negotiations, Nawabzada Nasarullah Khan, chief of the 15-party Alliance for Restoration of Democracy, which included Bhutto’s Pakistan Peoples Party Parliamentarians, announced here that ARD and the six religious party alliance Muthahida Majlis-e-Amal “in principle” reached an agreement on the candidates for the posts of the Prime Minister, the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker. PTI