In a parallel development, the PML-N party of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif - ousted by Gen Musharraf when he took power in a coup in 1999 - has challenged Mr Musharraf's eligibility to contest elections.
The PPP's main contender is the Pakistan Muslim League-N, headed by former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who spent years living in exile Saudi Arabia.
Well, in a statement he said it was on a clearly marked U.N. post and it occurred despite personal assurances he had gotten from Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert that U.N. positions would be spared.
Mr. Shah said that JUI-F was particularly strong in the south of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and predicted it would make gains along with Pakistan Muslim League-N, the conservative party of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, which is popular in the non-Pashtun parts of the province.
Next, the U.N. chief went to Jerusalem for talks with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
U.S. Vice President Al Gore, British Prime Minister John Major, and U.N.
Shahbaz Sharif has consulted his brother, PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif, ahead of the meeting with the prime minister.
Former Prime Minister Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League-N Party was the big winner in the election and appears set to form the next government.
Nawaz Sharif, who leads the opposition Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) and is tipped to be Pakistan's next prime minister, made an impassioned plea to crowds in Lahore just minutes before midnight on Thursday.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair favors using the U.N. to help with humanitarian and reconstruction projects, partly as a way to bring the U.S. and Europe together again after the damaging breach at the Security Council last month.
Another 23 percent chose Nawaz Sharif, a former Pakistani prime minister and head of the Pakistan Muslim League-N party.
In 1960, Russian leader Nikita Khrushchev heckled and thumped his desk during British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's speech to the U.N.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair said the report demonstrated the U.N. sanctions were not working and Saddam was "doing his best" to get around them.
Meanwhile opposition leader and former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif announced Monday that his Pakistan Muslim League-N party will participate in elections.
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Among those at the funeral were Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi, film director Franco Zeffirelli, former U.N.
Michel Djotodia, the rebel leader who has declared himself president, is sending his Prime Minister Nicolas Tiangaye to the summit in Chad's capital, N'Djamena.
European and United Nations diplomats have traveled to Beirut to meet with the embattled Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora, who has called for an immediate, U.N.
Though the new government, elected through the May 11 polls, won't be in place, Mr. Li will meet prime minister-elect Nawaz Sharif, who heads the Pakistan Muslim League-N, the rival to Mr. Zardari's Pakistan Peoples Party.
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Though the new government, elected through the May 11 polls, will not be in place, Mr. Li will meet prime minister-elect Nawaz Sharif, who heads the Pakistan Muslim League-N, the rival to Mr. Zardari's Pakistan Peoples Party.
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Speaking at a news conference with Prime Minister Olmert, Annan says he wants to speed up deployment of U.N. peacekeepers in south Lebanon.
But Croatian Prime Minister Ivica Racan said the visit on Friday of Carla Del Ponte, the U.N.
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, who has been in power since 1985, portrayed the U.N. recognition as a national triumph in the run-up to the general elections.
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