Foreign Minister Zebari insisted that he doesn't think that the recent surge of violence will disrupt the timetable for U.S.troops to withdraw from major Iraqi cities in June, or for assuming security responsibilities across the country.
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Still, it wasn't clear whether this surge would derail the front-runner in the election, Mr. Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League.
Still, it wasn't clear whether this surge would derail the front-runner in the election, the Pakistan Muslim League of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who hopes to form the next government of the world's fifth-largest democracy.